Tutoring
Student Achievement
What Would a National Tutoring Program Look Like? Can We Afford It?
A "pay it forward" tutoring corps could reach thousands of students and cost $5 billion to $15 billion, a new blueprint concludes.
Student Achievement
Letter to the Editor
Effective Tutoring Can Be Affordable
To the Editor:
I was delighted to see the August 19 article, “High-Dosage Tutoring Is Effective, But Expensive: Ideas for Making It Work” (Special Report: How We Go Back to School, www.edweek.org.) However, the article contains a serious misconception. In discussing costs of tutoring, it gave a figure of $3,800 per student based on a highly unusual study of math tutoring in Chicago high schools. The Chicago study is one of very few conducted at the high school level. It provided an extraordinary amount of one-to-two tutoring in mathematics and was unique in many other ways. Tutoring is most often used (and evaluated) in reading and in elementary schools
I was delighted to see the August 19 article, “High-Dosage Tutoring Is Effective, But Expensive: Ideas for Making It Work” (Special Report: How We Go Back to School, www.edweek.org.) However, the article contains a serious misconception. In discussing costs of tutoring, it gave a figure of $3,800 per student based on a highly unusual study of math tutoring in Chicago high schools. The Chicago study is one of very few conducted at the high school level. It provided an extraordinary amount of one-to-two tutoring in mathematics and was unique in many other ways. Tutoring is most often used (and evaluated) in reading and in elementary schools
Student Achievement
High-Dosage Tutoring Is Effective, But Expensive. Ideas for Making It Work
Individual or small group tutoring is the most powerful strategy schools can use to respond to pandemic learning losses.
Student Achievement
Explainer
Overcoming COVID-19 Learning Loss
Halting erosion to learning is critical as the new school year begins. Well-known practices backed by research are the best solution.
Families & the Community
Opinion
Parents as Emergency Teachers? The Research Offers Cautions and Opportunities for Schools
Parents can be effective teachers, but they need the right kind of support from schools.
Student Achievement
Cash-Strapped Teachers Are Getting Up Early to Tutor Students in China
Frustrated by low pay, some U.S. teachers are spending their free time working for online tutoring platforms based in China.
Student Achievement
How an Online Tutor Became a 'Math Celebrity'
Students and teachers alike line up for autographs and selfies with 26-year-old Darnell Boursiquot, a wildly popular tutor for the online learning platform Algebra Nation.
Student Achievement
From Our Research Center
Peers Guide 9th Graders Through 'Make-or-Break' Year
Fewer freshmen are failing at Summit High School, thanks to a program that trains juniors and seniors to mentor younger peers.
Student Achievement
How 'Intelligent' Tutors Could Transform Teaching
Robots won't put teachers out of a job soon, but tutoring systems powered by artificial intelligence might well change classroom practice.
College & Workforce Readiness
Test-Prep Companies Barred From SAT Debut
Most of the registered test-takers blocked from taking the new SAT on March 5 worked for tutoring companies.
Special Education
California Seeks Waiver on Use of Title I Tutoring Aid
The state is looking for the federal green light to use Title I funding it now spends on tutoring services to extend learning time.
College & Workforce Readiness
'Middle' Students Find Success Tutoring Peers, in N.Y.C. Study
A program that enlists middle-of-the-pack students to tutor their struggling peers seems to boost the test scores for both groups.
Reading & Literacy
Writing Centers Seek to Unlock Youths' Creativity
A national network of after-school tutoring centers that brings a focus on creative writing is reaching a growing number of urban youths.
Federal
Tutoring Firms Hit Hard by NCLB Waivers
Many for-profit providers of supplemental education services have had to pursue new K-12 revenue streams, or even close their doors, as federal funding has moved to other purposes.