Kirabo Jackson
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Oct 8, 2026
The Report Card with Nat Malkus: Private Tutoring Centers—A Bigger Deal than You Think (with Joshua Goodman)
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51:56Joshua GoodmanGUEST
Yeah.
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51:57Joshua GoodmanGUEST
I, again, I don't wanna push this argument too hard, but, uh, if we look at the amount of money that parents are spending on these centers, and we look at the implied test score effect that these centers are having, those sort of test score points per dollar spent numbers are a lot higher than if you look at things like Kirabo Jackson's work on public school finance reforms, where putting more money into public schools absolutely is helpful to student outcomes, including test scores.
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52:28Joshua GoodmanGUEST
But the magnitude of what you need to spend to move the average test scores by the same amount that we see tutoring centers doing is something like 10 times the amount that is being spent on the tutoring centers.
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52:40Joshua GoodmanGUEST
In other words, the tutoring center investments seem to be really effective.
Private Tutoring Centers—A Bigger Deal than You Think (with Joshua Goodman)
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51:56Josh GoodmanGUEST
Yeah.
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51:57Josh GoodmanGUEST
I, again, I don't wanna push this argument too hard, but, uh, if we look at the amount of money that parents are spending on these centers, and we look at the implied test score effect that these centers are having, those sort of test score points per dollar spent numbers are a lot higher than if you look at things like Kirabo Jackson's work on public school finance reforms, where putting more money into public school is absolutely as helpful to student outcomes, including test scores.
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52:28Josh GoodmanGUEST
But the magnitude of what you need to spend to move the average test scores by the same amount that we see tutoring centers doing is something like 10 times the amount that is being spent on the tutoring centers.
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52:40Josh GoodmanGUEST
In other words, the tutoring center investments seem to be really effective.