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How to Build It and Ensure They Will Come: Educators’ Advice on High-Dosage Tutoring Programs

How to Build It and Ensure They Will Come: Educators’ Advice on High-Dosage Tutoring Programs

Aug 2024 Personalized Learning

Read a new brief from our partners at MDRC that highlights educators’ advice on implementing high-dosage tutoring programs.

NBER Working Paper: Can Technology Facilitate Scale? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of High Dosage Tutoring
Academic Paper

NBER Working Paper: Can Technology Facilitate Scale? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of High Dosage Tutoring

Jun 2024

This paper outlines results from the Education Lab’s study of a high-dosage tutoring model–what we call “Saga Technology”–which found that substituting some tutor time with educational technology can reduce costs by one-third and halve the number of tutors needed without compromising effectiveness.

Realizing the Promise of High Dosage Tutoring at Scale: Preliminary Evidence for the Field
Report

Realizing the Promise of High Dosage Tutoring at Scale: Preliminary Evidence for the Field

Mar 2024

This technical report outlines preliminary results from the Personalized Learning Initiative showing that high dosage tutoring can be scaled and can work–even when delivered in the aftermath of the pandemic and in diverse academic settings.

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Briefing for Chicago Public Schools Elected School Board Candidates
Presentation

Briefing for Chicago Public Schools Elected School Board Candidates

Oct 2024

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.

How to Build It and Ensure They Will Come: Educators’ Advice on High-Dosage Tutoring Programs
Research Brief

How to Build It and Ensure They Will Come: Educators’ Advice on High-Dosage Tutoring Programs

Aug 2024

Read a new brief from our partners at MDRC that highlights educators’ advice on implementing high-dosage tutoring programs.

NBER Working Paper: Can Technology Facilitate Scale? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of High Dosage Tutoring
Academic Paper

NBER Working Paper: Can Technology Facilitate Scale? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of High Dosage Tutoring

Jun 2024

This paper outlines results from the Education Lab’s study of a high-dosage tutoring model–what we call “Saga Technology”–which found that substituting some tutor time with educational technology can reduce costs by one-third and halve the number of tutors needed without compromising effectiveness.

Realizing the Promise of High Dosage Tutoring at Scale: Preliminary Evidence for the Field
Report

Realizing the Promise of High Dosage Tutoring at Scale: Preliminary Evidence for the Field

Mar 2024

This technical report outlines preliminary results from the Personalized Learning Initiative showing that high dosage tutoring can be scaled and can work–even when delivered in the aftermath of the pandemic and in diverse academic settings.

Personalized Learning Initiative Research Brief
Research Brief

Personalized Learning Initiative Research Brief

Mar 2024

Overview of the Personalized Learning Initiative, a nationwide R&D initiative to scale the benefits of tutoring.

Video- From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice
Video

Video- From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice

Nov 2023

This video provides an overview of the Education Lab’s evaluation of the effect of restorative practices implemented in high schools across Chicago Public Schools.

Scaling Promising Practices in Youth Mentoring
Case study

Scaling Promising Practices in Youth Mentoring

Oct 2023

This case study by Results for America highlights the Crime Lab and Education Lab’s role in the City of Chicago’s bold initiative to expand the evidence-based Becoming a Man group mentoring model to serve thousands of young men.

Overcoming Pandemic-Induced Learning Loss
Academic Paper

Overcoming Pandemic-Induced Learning Loss

Oct 2023

The Education Lab’s faculty co-directors, Dr. Jens Ludwig, professor at the University of Chicago, and Dr. Jon Guryan, professor at Northwestern University, published a paper commissioned by the Aspen Economic Strategy Group for its 2023 policy volume.

Education Lab Overview
Overview

Education Lab Overview

Oct 2023

This document provides an overview of our work.

2023 Video- University of Chicago Education Lab: Looking Back and Forward
Video

2023 Video- University of Chicago Education Lab: Looking Back and Forward

Oct 2023

Watch our latest video on the Education Lab’s history and vision for the future.

NBER working paper- From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice
Academic Paper

NBER working paper- From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice

Sep 2023
Becker Friedman Institute Working Paper- From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice
Academic Paper

Becker Friedman Institute Working Paper- From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice

Sep 2023

Read the working paper on the results of the Education Lab’s findings from a study of the implementation of restorative practices in Chicago Public Schools.

From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice
Research Brief

From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice

Sep 2023

This research brief details the findings from the Education Lab’s study of the effect of restorative practices in Chicago Public Schools.

Randomized evaluation of a school-based, trauma-informed group intervention for young women in Chicago
Academic Paper

Randomized evaluation of a school-based, trauma-informed group intervention for young women in Chicago

Jun 2023

Science Advances journal publication.

Choose to Change Website
Website

Choose to Change Website

Learn more about the Choose to Change program at the provider’s website.

Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents
Academic Paper

Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents

Mar 2023

Read our academic paper on the early Saga studies published in the American Economic Review.