Oct 2024
Briefing for Chicago Public Schools Elected School Board Candidates
The Education Lab hosted a series of briefings for Chicago Public Schools’ elected school board candidates to provide practical tools and show how school board members can effectively use data to shape policy and improve student success.
The Impact of Virtual High Dosage Tutoring in New Mexico
Since 2022, the New Mexico Public Education Department has been working with Saga Education and the Personalized Learning Initiative to stand up virtually delivered high dosage tutoring for middle school math across the state and study its impacts on student learning. This brief summarizes the findings for school year 2023-24 and 2024-25.
Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI) Dashboard and Program Profiles
This interactive dashboard offers a look into the 35,000 students across eight school systems served as a part of the Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI). It provides information on high-dosage tutoring program design, enrollment, participation.
Insights into the Tutor Workforce: Tutors’ Experiences, Diversity, and Retention in the Personalized Learning Initiative
Our MDRC partners published a brief that offers insights from a survey of tutors’ experiences participating in the Personalized Learning Initiative during the 2023-2024 school year. The brief also includes reflections from schools on the successes and challenges regarding tutoring recruitment and retention.
Personalized Learning Initiative Interim Report: Findings from 2023-24
The latest report by the PLI research team shows positive impacts from many types of tutoring–both more and less expensive tutoring models–across the country. These interim findings ought to encourage the field to stay the course in implementing high dosage tutoring, while improving dosage to yield greater learning gains for students.
Latest Updates
Q&A With Eleni Packis: Supporting Student Engagement During Remote Learning
Read a Q&A with Eleni Packis, co-author of a working paper presenting evidence from three large-scale randomized controlled trials carried out during the 2020 shift to virtual instruction to study interventions aimed at re-engaging students in virtual environments.
Every Choice Has Opportunity: Inside the ECHO Curriculum
The Crime Lab and Education Lab hosted a webinar to provide an in-depth look at the research behind ECHO, our approach to creating it, and an overview of resources and tips to get started with using the curriculum.
Philadelphia’s tutoring program shows promise but faces familiar obstacle: expanding it effectively
The Education Lab’s John Wolf spoke to Rebecca Redelmeier for Chalkbeat Philadelphia about our research showing high-dosage tutoring works—but only when students receive enough of it each week to produce measurable gains.
