Comments on: Students aren’t benefiting much from tutoring, one new study shows

By: Bill Henk

Bill Henk — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 23:49:43 +0000

Tutoring programs of any scale for struggling readers are largely dependent on the extent to which the tutors, often amateurs or volunteers, know or have been trained to know exactly what to do. Typically they need specialized instruction because typical school instruction has not worked for them.

By: Jim Therrell

Jim Therrell — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:47:33 +0000

Good, honest assessment of tutoring, but . . . no mention of how AI will become the tutor of the future (see Khan’s book, Brave New Worlds: How AI will Revolutionize Education (and why that’s a good thing), making human / face-to-face efforts at tutoring secondary or even unnecessary.