This paper from some researchers at Stanford is getting some attention so I took a look. "Our study quantifies who's getting (attention) and who's not, contexts where students are getting attention, and the surprising gaps that emerge," writes one of the authors in an email. Maybe, but it's a very narrow look. It studies only U.S. students being tutored in pairs online in the context of a tutoring program they are coy about naming, but which the reference cited reveals to be called OnYourMark (somehow found on page 01623737241288845 (which equates to page 8)). The only variables considered are gender, race, and ability. It's random only in the sense that they looked at everything - all "157,970 utterances from 5,249 2-on-1 tutoring session." Do in-person educators discriminate in tutoring sessions? Probably, but I wouldn't conclude it from this study.
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