The Tutoring Economy: How Personalized Learning Became a Shadow School System, and What It Means for the Future of Education - Couverture souple

Editorial, Evervian

 
9798195014469: The Tutoring Economy: How Personalized Learning Became a Shadow School System, and What It Means for the Future of Education

Synopsis

chool no longer ends when the bell rings.

Across the country, families are hiring tutors, schools are funding high-dosage programs, online platforms are selling on-demand help, and AI tools are becoming always-awake academic assistants. Together, they form something bigger than homework help: a second education system.

The Tutoring Economy investigates how personalized learning became a shadow school system—one that promises recovery, confidence, and individualized support, but also raises urgent questions about inequality, dependency, student privacy, teacher labor, and the future of public education.

Blending narrative nonfiction, education research, policy analysis, and technology reporting, this book explains why tutoring expanded after the pandemic, why some tutoring works and some disappoints, how parents make costly decisions around “extra help,” and why AI tutoring may become one of the most disruptive forces in learning outside the classroom.

Inside, readers will explore:

  • High-dosage tutoring and school recovery
  • Private tutoring as a family economy
  • The rise of AI tutors and adaptive learning platforms
  • The new achievement gap between students with and without supplemental learning
  • What schools can learn from the tutoring model
  • How to build a fairer “second school day”

For parents, teachers, school leaders, policymakers, and anyone watching technology reshape childhood, The Tutoring Economy offers a clear, urgent map of the new learning landscape.

The classroom is no longer the whole school. The question is who gets access to the rest.

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