Watch: Expert Matthew Kraft Talks 7 Ways Tutoring Can Help Students & Schools After the Disruptions of the Pandemic

We’ve regularly talked with Professor Matthew Kraft during the pandemic, about COVID-related classroom disruptions, their impact on student learning and the role tutoring can play in helping kids catch up. (See some of our past coverage below) In a recently published conversation with The 74, Kraft also talked about the ways in which a more robust infrastructure surrounding the training of tutors could also aid school systems struggling with staffing shortages. We recently sat down with the expert for a rapid-fire breakdown about why tutoring works and how effective tutoring could change the game at America’s schools, posing seven essential questions over four minutes. Watch and share his responses right here.

From our recent archive on COVID learning loss and tutoring: 

• New Tutoring Research Shows That Even Lightly Trained Volunteers Drive Academic Gains
• As Schools Push for More Tutoring, New Research Points to Its Effectiveness (and the Challenges of Scaling Across the Country) 
• A New Playbook to Recruit Tutors: Tap Teachers in Training
• Nation’s Report Card Shows Largest Drops Ever Recorded in 4th and 8th Grade Math
• Cardona’s Tutoring Charge, 1 Year Later: Some Progress, but Obstacles Remain
• Principal’s View: How High-Dosage Tutoring Transformed My NYC Middle School

—Produced and Edited by James Fields