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A Blueprint for Scaling Tutoring Across Public Schools

Matthew A. Kraft,
Grace Falken

In this thought experiment, we explore how tutoring could be scaled nationally to address COVID-19 learning loss and become a permanent feature of the U.S. public education system. We outline a blueprint 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 blueprint highlights a range of design tradeoffs and implementation challenges as well as estimates of program costs. Our estimates suggest that 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.

Keywords
Tutoring, Covid-19, individualized instruction, AmeriCorps
Education level
K-12 Education
Topics
Student Learning
Tags
Covid-19 recovery,
Tutoring
Download 01/2021
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/dkjh-s987
EdWorkingPaper suggested citation:
Kraft, Matthew A., and Grace Falken. (). A Blueprint for Scaling Tutoring Across Public Schools. (EdWorkingPaper: -335). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/dkjh-s987

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