Teachers get weekly reports that let them pinpoint which students are failing too many quizzes -- signaling a need for one-on-one tutoring -- or which are ready for some harder stuff.

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Disruptive innovation was unleashed with the ecosystem of the Silicon Valley behind it to deliver educational content in a high scale, low cost model while providing a deeply interactive experience to learners akin to one-on-one tutoring.

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The professor who taught him, Lucinda Roy, said she spoke repeatedly to the university authorities about him, adding she was so concerned by what she found that she decided to take him out of the classroom for one-to-one tutoring.

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In China, where private tutorial schools were unknown until the economy opened up in the 1990s, New Oriental Education and Technology has grown to become one of the largest tutoring schools in Asia with around 2.4 million students this year.

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In other words, some machine-based tutoring is approaching the effect size of real human tutoring and there is less variation than one might expect as the grain size of tutoring becomes finer.

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The Senate opponents, all Republicans, acted after prolonged tutoring by experts, one of the most persuasive of whom was a Democrat, James Schlesinger.

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Alison Johnston is the CEO and cofounder of InstaEDU, an online tutoring company that makes it possible for student to get high-quality, one-on-one academic support the moment they need it.

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