A new debate is forming in response to a NY Times Sunday front page story about the under usage of NCLB's tutoring provisions. For analysis see Rotherham and Russo.



The Edjurist would just like to applaud the efforts of the NY Times for
bringing this issue to the fore. Whether or not it is a good policy (of
course there is not enough actual dollars, let alone federal dollars,
to fund this program), it is contained in the law and students, by
right, should be entitled to these services. Double kudos to the Times
for putting this issue on the front page, where it might actually
garner some attention and generate a policy debate about the merits of private tutoring (which is what we really need).