ERIC Number: ED613206
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Publication Date: 2021-Mar
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The Narrow Path to Do It Right: Lessons from Vaccine Making for High-Dosage Tutoring
Goldstein, Michael; Paulle, Bowen
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
High-dosage tutoring is receiving a lot of buzz as a promising tool to address learning loss in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But unlike vaccines, successful tutoring programs are challenging to scale with fidelity. In this paper, long-time educators Michael Goldstein and Bowen Paulle recommend: (1) Evaluating tutoring programs and measuring their results; (2) Abandoning those that don't work; and (3) Conditionally scaling those that do work in small settings, all while focusing on desired program outcomes, not inputs. To be sure, high-dosage tutoring helps many children. But effectively scaling up small programs is no easy feat. Context and quality matter. If policymakers make well-informed choices and do more than just throw money at these programs, high-dosage tutoring can be grown to benefit many more students than it already does.
Descriptors: Tutoring, Instructional Effectiveness, Leadership, Educational Research, Problems, Program Development, Immunization Programs
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Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Thomas B. Fordham Institute
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