#  Op-Ed: Schools Must Do the Hard Work If High-Dosage Tutoring Is to Help Every Student 

 





There is a temptation in education to abandon projects rapidly and instead chase a new solution as a magic bullet for improving student outcomes. Too often, when an investment doesn’t have an instant payoff, it’s abandoned for the next shiny thing. New programs, new technology, new slogans, each promising to fix what came before it. But the truth is, no new solution will ever pay off without doing the hard, steady work of diagnosing problems and mastering the fundamentals.

In the post-COVID era, tutoring has faced criticism for mixed results following significant investments to address learning loss. This comes despite a significant body of research that shows high-dosage tutoring yields, on average, a learning gain of one-third of a grade level per year, with the potential for a full extra year of learning over three years.

So, what gives?



 

May 27, 2026

 

 

 Christina Grant Kevin Huffman 

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 [ Read the op-ed at The 74 arrow\_circle\_right ](https://www.the74million.org/article/schools-must-do-the-hard-work-if-high-dosage-tutoring-is-to-help-every-student/) [ Access the tutoring toolkit arrow\_circle\_right ](/high-dosage-tutoring-toolkit) 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Accelerate Toolkit ](/tags/accelerate-toolkit)
 
 

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