In the Press

Brookings (2022). The good and bad of on-demand tutoring.

Hechinger Report (2022). PROOF POINTS: Many schools are buying on-demand tutoring but a study finds that few students are using it

Education Week (2022). Scaling Up Intensive Tutoring: 4 Studies to Know.

Education Week Webinar (2022) - Examining the Evidence: What We’re Learning From the Field About Implementing High-Dosage Tutoring Programs.

Teacher Leader Lagniappe Podcast (2021) - Effective Tutoring Practices.

The 74 Million (2021) - ‘What Would It Mean to Equalize Access to Tutoring?’ Brown University’s National Student Support Accelerator Aims to Find Out.

JHU Hub (2021) - An Emphasis on Evidence.

APA Division 15 Podcast (2021) - Educational Psychology in the Open Science Era.

Gov Innovator Podcast (2021) - Boosting student achievement with high-dosage tutoring.

The 74 million (2020) - Write Less to Say More — How Schools Can Communicate More Effectively With Families.

CNN (2020) - Why no one is reading your coronavirus emails.

Center for Advanced Hindsight (2019) - Best in Behavioral Science Awards.

Education Week (2019) - We must raise the bar for evidence in education.

AttendanceWorks (2019) -
Writing truancy notices that can improve attendance.

Psychology Today (2019) - Belief in science bolsters belief in climate science.

Quartz (2019) - Why employee rewards are frequently ineffective and potentially counterproductive.

BehavioralEconomics.com (2019) - When Awards Backfire.

EurekAlert! (2019) - Climate change conversations can be difficult for both skeptics, environmentalists.

Edutopia (2019) - Extrinsic Motivation: It Might Be Even Worse Than You Thought.

HARVARD USABLE.jpg — Harvard Usable Knowledge (2019) - How Attendance Awards Backfire.

AERA Logo_2017_FinalSmall.png — AERA (2019) - Study Snapshot: The Demotivating Effect (and Unintended Message) of Awards.

edu world.png — Education World (2019) - Do Awards Pay Off?

CPRE Knowledge Hub (2019) - When Attendance Awards Backfire.

heching report.png — Hechinger Report (2019) - When school rewards backfire.

heching report.png — Hechinger Report (2019) - The Dark Side of Educational Research: Widespread Bias.

edu next.jpg — EducationNext (2019) - How to Tackle Student Absenteeism.

Education Week (2019) - Does the Ubiquitous Attendance Certificate Really Get Students to School?

hidden brain.jpg — Hidden Brain (2019) - How Awards Can Shape Our Behavior.

Pacific Standard (2019) - How to Convince a Conservative that Climate Change is Real.

Journalist's Resource (2019) - Chronic absenteeism in elementary schools: An easy potential solution.

NPR (2018) - How Can Schools Better Persuade Students To Show Up For Class?

The New York Times (2018) - Science Confirms It: People Are Not Pets.

Shanker Institute (2018) - Weaning Educational Research Off Of Steroids.

Digital Promise (2018) - Does offering students a choice in assignments lead to greater engagement?

UCLA Anderson Review (2018) - Awards as Incentives: Sometimes They Backfire.

daily MAIL.png — Daily Mail (2018) - Rewarding children for going to school makes them MORE likely to play truant and ends up demotivating them.

BBC (2018) - Rewards don't improve school attendance.

Uncommon Knowledge, The Boston Globe (2018) - An award for showing up.

Education Week (2018) - Breaking Down the Myths That Lead Young Students To Miss School.

HARVARD USABLE.jpg — Harvard Usable Knowledge (2018) - Learning to Self Manage.

Harvard Usable Knowledge (2017) - Making Student Feedback Work.

heching report.png — The Hechinger Report (2017) - Sending parents useful information about attendance, course progress has big effects, social scientists find.

HARVARD USABLE.jpg — Harvard Usable Knowledge (2017) - Parents as Allies in Reducing Absences.