Many states have done little if anything to gauge the effectiveness of the No Child Left Behind Act’s tutoring-services provision for students in low-performing schools, a report released last week suggests.
“Accountability Left Behind: While Students and Schools Face High Stakes Testing, Tutoring Companies Get a Free Ride,” is available online from ACORN. (Requires Adobe’s Acrobat Reader.)
The report by the New York City-based Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, a network for low- and moderate-income families, says states have failed to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of tutoring companies hired by states to provide the so-called supplemental-services tutoring under the federal law.
