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High Expectations

The narrow path to do it right: Lessons from vaccine making for high-dosage tutoring

Mike GoldsteinBowen Paulle
3.10.2021
3.10.2021

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:

  • Evaluating tutoring programs and measuring their results.
  • Abandoning those that don’t work.
  • 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.


Policy Priority:
High Expectations
Topics:
Evidence-Based Learning
Curriculum & Instruction
Personalized Learning
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goldstein

Mike Goldstein is an educator in Boston.

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Bowen Paulle is on the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam.

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