New Partnerships to Stem COVID Learning Loss: School districts and tutoring providers explore outcomes-based contracting in K-12 math education

February 1, 2021

Third Sector and the Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) collaborated to lead an Outcomes-Based Contracting (OBC) Summit, a four-workshop virtual series exploring outcomes contracting in K-12 math instruction. The OBC Summit was funded by Schmidt Futures.  

Summit participants learned about the nuances of outcomes-based contracting and defined an approach for their organization. Over 55 participants from seven school districts and eight tutoring providers across the country gathered in pursuit of three goals:

  1. Bring together schools and tutoring providers to find new ways of improving core academic outcomes
  2. Provide schools with a reliable way to improve math achievement at a scalable cost
  3. Unlock new R&D investment and attract new talent to the K-12 market

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