When chatbots help students learn less. Interesting study in a Turkish high school that randomly selected classrooms to study math 3 ways: with ChatGPT, with an AI tutor or on their own. hechingerreport.org/kids-chatgpt-w…

Harris’ new policy page is up. No specifics on K-12 education.

“I worry that we may excuse ourselves from the hard work ... by saying that we didn’t get the eye-popping results that we had hoped for right out of the gate, and therefore it’s not the solution that we should continue to invest in.” hechingerreport.org/proof-points-t…

New study: modest effects for high-dosage tutoring at scale in Nashville. New column from Jill Barshay reporting on a new paper from Matthew A. Kraft hechingerreport.org/proof-points-t…

I understand why people thought that a huge increase in 1-to-1 tutoring was the answer post-Covid, but it was *always* just wishful thinking (at best) that completely misunderstood pretty much the entire context. hechingerreport.org/proof-points-t… The Hechinger Report

{new} As poverty rises, reading proficiency tends to fall. But it’s not fate. See the districts in your state that are outperforming expectations: the74million.org/article/which-… via The 74

Clear eyed coverage tracking the results from mass tutoring intervention in Tennessee hechingerreport.org/proof-points-t…

1/ Big change in admissions over a generation is the shift of out-of-states into flagships after U. of Alabama decided to make out-of-staters a strategic priority. Today, at a dozen flagships, fewer than half of the freshmen class is from in-state. (graphic via The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Lively panel on outcomes-based contracting at Holon IQ’s Back to School conference with Melanie Dukes, Sadie Jefferson and Sunil Gunderia.

"Kraft and his research team found that tutoring produced only a small boost to reading test scores, on average, and no improvement in math. Tutoring failed to lift course grades in either subject." hechingerreport.org/proof-points-t…

A lot to unpack here. BIG lesson: consistency of the model and fidelity of implementation are CRUCIAL to short and long-term success!—Students aren’t benefiting much from tutoring, one new study shows hechingerreport.org/proof-points-t… #TeamUCPS Union County Public Schools Susan Rodgers

Let's not forget that the pandemic has taken a toll on student learning. 👉Only 21% of high school seniors who took the ACT in 2023 met all of the exams "college readiness benchmarks" in math, reading, English, and science. 👉 More than four in 10 met none of these.

“After decades of raising the bar for what’s considered grade-level performance, several states have lowered their ‘cut scores,’ or what it means to be deemed proficient on end-of-year achievement tests.” Lesley Muldoon via The Hechinger Report hechingerreport.org/opinion-its-fi… #AssessmentHQ

Tutoring was the promised solution to student achievement declines, especially after the Covid school lockdowns. New research suggests mass tutoring had little to no effect on student achievement. Sobering read for school board members to consider. hechingerreport.org/proof-points-t…

Interesting study on college-level learning from AI tutors vs. teachers. Drum roll... AI won. But that's not the whole story. Via Jill Barshay The Hechinger Report hechingerreport.org/proof-points-a…

Harvard physicist had AI face off against his own in-person classes. Guess who won? (Spoiler: AI) But this lecturer also explains why "AI tutors" aren't good at what we think of as tutoring. hechingerreport.org/proof-points-a…

Many AI advocates believe that it should be used to differentiate instruction. Give students different lessons and practice work. However, this experiment inside the Harvard physics department found huge results for a one-size-fits-all approach to AI. hechingerreport.org/proof-points-a…

.Mark Anderson on how LLMs are changing our understanding of how kids learn to read and SOR . "...only provide enough explicit instruction as needed to ... spend more time engaged in... reading, writing, and talking." (h/t Benjamin Riley) languageandliteracy.blog/llms-statistic…