Surely there’s a better way to spend $50 million
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
The Chicago Public Schools spent $50 million in federal money on after-school tutoring for 56,000 students last year but test scores show it got limited bang for its buck.
The NCLB-mandated tutoring had “a minimal impact, at best,” a CPS official told the Sun-Times. According to a CPS study, tutored elementary students performed only slightly better on reading tests than kids who were eligible for tutoring but didn’t receive it. Gains in math were ”negligible.”
The study found some gains (besides in the tutoring companies’ bank accounts). According to the Sun-Times:
Low-scoring kids ineligible for tutoring — because they went to a higher achieving school or came from a higher income family — made the most progress in reading and math.
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