I think you could combine both models: Students use tutoring software and their teacher spends time with each student celebrating their progress and encouraging and teaching them when they struggle. The teacher's primary job would be to teach the children how to learn and succeed in academics. Specifically, teachers would teach students how to make plans, follow plans, focus, how to think about success, how to think about failure, determine the cause of failure, update their plans, develop determination, evaluate their own mood, and recognize their mental habits. Teachers would also assign, grade, and give feedback on student projects. Projects would have multiple iterations before a final grade.