Are No Child Left Behind-Funded Tutors Ripping Off Students and Taxpayers? Or, You Don't Need To Be In Washington To Be A Watchdog
Several studies of the No Child Left Behind Act’s performance in raising student achievement through federally-funded “supplemental education services” (SES)—i.e. tutoring—for low-performing schools have shown that it is having a negligible effect.
“Third-party evaluations of these services are finding small, if any, statistically significant effects of the program in improving student acfhievement,” wrote Heinrich Mintrop and Gail L. Sunderman in a peer-reviewed journal article in Educational Researcher published in summer 2009.
This is surprising. After all, some tutoring should do some good.
Some education activists in Columbus, Ohio, think they know partly why SES has been such