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December 21, 2005
Tutoring programs: Where is the oversight?What is your school district paying for tutoring services? Long piece here in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram details the situation in that area of the country, and why some critics say introducing the profit motive into the education of a child is the wrong recipe for success. The piece points to a study from FairTest on how tutoring services are not cost effective, but that is not exactly an unbiased source on this stuff. The Fort Worth piece includes the usual excuse-making among the adults, blaming poverty, etc. One complaint though rings true: Where is the adequate oversight? "Indiana schools have spent millions since 2003 on private tutoring to raise the test scores of struggling students, yet no one can tell whether all the extra lessons are making a difference," reports the Indianapolis Star.
More from that paper here and in an editorial here: "Since neither state nor local education officials provide much data on the quality of providers, parents have to shop around on their own, and they can be lured by promises of Xbox videogame systems as a result."
Posted December 21, 2005 12:58 PM
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