Description:

COVID created a once-a-century public health crisis that has also led to a once-a-century public education crisis, one that has exacerbated long-standing disparities in student outcomes along race and class lines. In response, the US Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona encouraged school districts around the country to prioritize their federal pandemic relief funding for high-dosage tutoring. In this presentation we summarize the evidence for why high-dosage tutoring is so promising, discuss why scaling the benefits of tutoring has been so challenging for districts, and present some candidate ideas – and initial evidence – on overcoming those scale challenges.

About the Presenter
Jonathan Guryan is the Lawyer Taylor Professor of Education and Social Policy and Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research. He is a co-founder and co-director of the Education Lab at the University of Chicago, a member of the National Academy of Education, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Much of his research falls into two main categories, understanding the sources and consequences of racial inequality and the economics of education.
 
More about the E4 Learning Community
E4 hosts a series of virtual brown bag presentations on various timely education topics. Registration details for upcoming events and recordings of past presentations are now available on the Learning Community section of the E4 website. These events are open to all and developed with practitioners in mind.

E4 also hosts an annual in-person convening each spring. If you are a member of a school district and interested in participating, please reach out to e4center@northwestern.edu to learn more.