A research digest leading with the University of Maryland AI tutoring trial. It reports Jing Liu and colleagues' finding that course-integrated AI tutor access lowered final grades and online participation, with larger losses for first-generation students.
A five-item research digest for Canadian families and teachers. It summarizes the randomized study by Elizabeth Huffaker, Bess Levin Markel, Carly Robinson and Susanna Loeb finding that tutors' prior experience with the same program, not degrees or teaching experience, predicted larger reading gains.
A parent-oriented digest on Ontario grading rules, AI tutoring and U.S. data. It describes Carly Robinson and colleagues' randomized study in which students given a free AI reading tutor barely used it, and draws the lesson that scheduled adult check-ins drive use.
A research roundup for Canadian parents on phone bans, provincial test scores and tutoring. It again features Ayman Shakeel's EdWorkingPaper on a high-dosage literacy tutoring program, stressing that the gains went to students who started furthest behind.
A Canadian tutoring company's monthly research digest for Ontario parents covering a special-education audit, test results and tutoring research. It summarizes Ayman Shakeel's randomized trial of high-dosage literacy tutoring, noting the null average effect but gains of about 0.2 SD for the lowest-performing readers.
Connect Education's roundup covers two EdWorkingPapers: Marty Haoyuan Chen's study of what private tutoring centers in Texas change for students, and Florence Bason and Christopher Redding's test of whether state science-of-reading laws moved fourth-grade reading scores.
Connect Education's weekly roundup draws on four EdWorkingPapers. It leads with Chicago research by Elaine Allensworth and colleagues finding that schools matter more than neighborhoods for post-pandemic attendance, and also covers papers on hybrid human-AI tutoring and Texas's four-day school weeks.
Connect Education's weekly research roundup for parents features two EdWorkingPapers on tutoring. One tests ways to get more Arkansas families to sign up for free literacy tutoring; the other, by Huffaker and colleagues, looks at a Texas district's virtual tutoring program that did not deliver.