ERIC Number: ED610286
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Dec
Pages: 46
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A Blueprint for Scaling Tutoring across Public Schools. EdWorkingPaper No. 20-335
Kraft, Matthew A.; Falken, Grace T.
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
In this paper, we explore how tutoring could become a permanent feature of the U.S. public education system. We outline a blueprint for taking tutoring to scale nationally and estimate its costs, while highlighting a range of design and implementation challenges. Our blueprint is centered on ten core principles and a federal architecture to support adoption, while providing for local ownership over key implementation features. High school students would tutor in elementary schools via an elective class, college students in middle schools via federal work-study, and full time 2- and 4-year college graduates in high schools via AmeriCorps. We envision an incremental, demand-driven expansion process with priority given to high-needs schools. Our estimates suggest that a range of targeted approaches to scaling school-wide tutoring nationally, such as focusing on K-8 Title I schools, would cost between $5 and $15 billion annually. These costs are comparable to existing federal programs such as Title I, the National School Lunch Program, and Head Start and equate to roughly 1% to 2% of total expenditures on U.S. public education. Attempts to scale tutoring to address COVID-19 learning loss might be most successful and sustainable if they are part of an effort to incrementally integrate tutoring services within the public school system.
Descriptors: Public Schools, Tutoring, Costs, Program Design, Program Implementation, Federal Programs, Educational Cooperation, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary School Students, High School Students, Middle School Students, College Students, College Graduates, Work Study Programs, National Programs, Administrative Organization, Educational Finance
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Brown University Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-7990; Fax: 401-863-1290; e-mail: AISR_Info@brown.edu; Web site: http://www.annenberginstitute.org
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; High Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
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