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ERIC Number: ED570862
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Mar
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
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Improving Academic Outcomes for Disadvantaged Students: Scaling up Individualized Tutorials. Policy Proposal 2016-02
Ander, Roseanna; Guryan, Jonathan; Ludwig, Jens
Hamilton Project
Improving the educational outcomes of economically disadvantaged children is a policy priority in the United States, and yet relatively little progress has been made in recent decades. Education reforms that aim to help economically disadvantaged students often focus on improving the quality with which grade-level material is taught, or the incentives that students have to learn it. Yet such efforts may not adequately account for important differences within a classroom of students--differences in knowledge, in learning styles, or the rate at which students learn. As a result, in spite of these efforts, students who fall behind grade-level material tend to stay behind. When these students miss developing crucial foundational skills, they can have major difficulties in subsequent learning tasks, which worsens the gap between them and their grade-level peers as they move from one grade to the next. This persistent mismatch between the learning needs of students and what classroom instruction delivers can seriously undermine students' chances of success in the workforce and beyond. We propose scaling up a daily, individualized tutorial program that would allow students who have fallen behind grade level in math to reengage with regular classroom instruction, likely increasing their chances of graduating high school and achieving the many long-term economic benefits that go along with academic success. [This work was made possible by the generous support of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, as well as the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, the city of Chicago, the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention, the Chicago Public Schools, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, the Crown Family, the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, IMC Financial Markets, the Joyce Foundation, J-PAL, the Reva and David Logan Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Polk Bros Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation.]
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Audience: Policymakers
Language: English
Sponsor: US Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH)
Authoring Institution: Brookings Institution, Hamilton Project
Identifiers - Location: Illinois
Grant or Contract Numbers: 2012JUFX0019; 1P01HD076816