The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 6, 2025
Students who were chosen to receive tutoring in Washington, D.C., A Stanford study showed that tutoring could improve their attendance by about one day. More recent research, however, suggests that prediction may have been overly optimistic. Stanford University researchers have been studying Washington, D.C.s $33
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 15, 2021
A March 2021 study found that high school students learned two to three times as much math as their peers from a daily dose of tutoring at school. Yet some of the strongest research evidence points to an intensive type of tutoring as a way to help children catch up. Credit: Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 25, 2020
One proposal is to give them personal tutors. Normally, the idea of giving every poor child a professional tutor would seem too expensive but extreme circumstances have put big ideas on the table and policymakers are suggesting cheaper, if not exactly cheap, ways to do it. He calls it “high-dosage tutoring.”
The Hechinger Report
MAY 1, 2023
One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. The problem is that this kind of frequent tutoring is very expensive and it’s impossible to hire enough tutors for the millions of American public school students who need help.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 15, 2024
Ever since the pandemic shut down schools in the spring of 2020, education researchers have pointed to tutoring as the most promising way to help kids catch up academically. Researchers have previously found that it is important to schedule in-person tutoring sessions during the school day, when attendance is mandatory.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 29, 2020
The world’s wealthiest families have known for centuries how effective tutoring is. Private tutors long educated the aristocracy and continue to supplement the education of kids whose families can afford it. Now, a national nonprofit has found a way to get tutoring to kids from poorer families, too.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
A student’s view of PS2 Pal, the AI tutor used in a learning experiment inside Harvard’s physics department. Very few researchers have evaluated whether students are benefiting, and one well-designed study showed that using ChatGPT for math actually harmed student achievement. They learned more and they liked it.
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