Mar 2016
Improving Academic Outcomes for Disadvantaged Students: Scaling Up Individualized Tutoring
Education Lab Faculty Co-Directors Jon Guryan and Jens Ludwig and Executive Director Rosesanna Ander penned this The Hamilton Project policy proposal.
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.
Protected: Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI) Dashboard
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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.
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.
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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.
A Promising Start for Personalized Learning in Miami-Dade
Griffin Catalyst highlights its three-year gift to the Education Lab to bring an innovative, high-dosage, math tutoring initiative to middle schools in Miami-Dade County to support and accelerate student learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initial results from the program are promising, suggesting that this approach can help tackle learning loss and enable students to catch up to grade level.
