Education Gadfly Show #845: Why schools are wasting millions of dollars on ineffective online tutoring

Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. Bart Epstein

11.8.2022

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Bart Epstein, the president and CEO of EdTech Evidence Exchange, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the challenges that schools and districts face when implementing online “on-demand” tutoring programs for students. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber Northern reviews a study that examines the effects of state-mandated civics tests on youth voter turnout.

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Bart’s organization: EdTech Evidence Exchange
The narrow path to do it right: Lessons from vaccine making for high-dosage tutoring —Mike Goldstein and Bowen Paulle
“Many schools are buying on-demand tutoring but a study finds that few students are using it” —The Hechinger Report
The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Jung, Jilli, and Gopalan, Maithreyi, “The Stubborn Unresponsiveness of Youth Voter Turnout to Civic Education: Quasi-experimental Evidence from State-Mandated Civics Tests,” Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University (Nov 2022)

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Policy Priority:

High Expectations

Topics:

Curriculum & Instruction

President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, executive editor of Education Next, editor in chief of the…

David Griffith is Associate Director of Research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he manages or authors reports on various subjects including charter schools, …

Amber Northern is senior vice president for research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she supervises the Institute’s robust research portfolio and…

Bart Epstein is a research associate professor in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia. He’s also the president and CEO of EdTech Evidence Exchange, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding new approaches to ed tech research.