High Dosage Tutoring

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Schools that were effective put kids in groups of six or less, four or more days per year. Tutoring for four hours a year is going to get you what you expect, not a lot. It has to be high dosage tutoring but people don't want the high dosage part of it. You have to really spend the time to catch up. The last one is really, you know, to me is the glue that binds it all together. And that is a culture of high expectations.

The good news about educational reform, says Harvard economist Roland Fryer, is that we know what it takes to turn a school around. The bad news is that it's hard work--and implementing it won't win you any popularity contests. Listen as the MacArthur Genius Award Winner and John Bates Clark medalist speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how pizza parties revealed the potential of incentives to improve students' test scores, and why he's far more concerned about closing the racial achievement gap than keeping the love of learning pure. He also discusses the five best practices of successful schools, and why it's his failures far more than his successes that keep him in this fight.