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

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.

Recommended content:

• Bart's organization: EdTech Evidence Exchange
• The narrow path to doing it right: Evidence 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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