John Wolf
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John Wolf is the Associate Director for the Education Lab. For over a decade, John has helped to design and implement research projects focused on efforts to increase school engagement and interventions aimed to personalize academic instruction. As a former educator, John has a unique understanding of the challenges schools and nonprofit groups face when developing programs with youth. John uses this knowledge to provide strategic guidance to our leadership and research teams. He also works with our diverse array of partners to deepen our collective understanding of the many facets of program implementation that support or impede the successful delivery of high-quality services.
Before joining the Labs, John was a middle school math teacher with Teach for America in an academically underserved community in Indianapolis. John holds a BS in business administration from Washington University in Saint Louis and an MAT from Marian University in Indianapolis.
Every Choice Has Opportunity (ECHO)
ECHO is a free, open-source curriculum that helps service providers guide young people to make better decisions using tools informed by research and practice.
Personalized Learning Initiative
The Personalized Learning Initiative is a moonshot to overcome pandemic learning loss and aims to bring high-dosage tutoring to students nationwide.
Personalized Learning Initiative: Tutor Corps Evaluation
The University of Chicago Education Lab is partnering with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to scale personalized tutoring in the wake of the pandemic.
Post-Secondary Champions
The Education Lab partnered with Chicago Public Schools to help implement a program embedding post-secondary advisors in schools to provide personalized supports for students’ post-secondary career and education outcomes.
Latest Updates
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.
Embedding High-Dosage Tutoring in Secondary Math Classes
MDRC published a blog post highlighting key takeaways from the implementation of a tutoring program in Fulton County, Georgia as a part of our Personalized Learning Initiative, offering a deeper look at the strategies that make tutoring successful and how schools can effectively implement them.
Tutoring & Tech’s Impact On Schools
Outside the Loop learns about the latest research from the Education Lab showing the benefits of tutoring combined with educational technology in schools.
