UW researcher wins $3M federal grant - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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The grant from the U.S. Department of Education'a Institute of Education Sciences will allow Heinricyh to employ academic staff and at leasy four graduate students each year to work on expandinvg the project oother cities. Heinrich will continue an evaluation of the tutorinyg programs MPS offers as part ofthe district's fulfillment of the federalo No Child Left Behind law. The law requires publid schools that have not adequately increased student academif achievement for three years to offerd childrenin low-income families the opportunit y to receive extra academic assistance such as tutoring.
Heinrich's initiapl research found that Milwaukee's federally mandated and funded tutoring program is not necessarily reaching the people who need themost help, nor is it effectivd in increasing student achievement. "Our preliminary results suggest that the studentsd in the tutoring programs are not performing any better on Wisconsin's standardized tests than eligible students not involve with the tutoring," Heinrich said. Heinrich and her co-workeres have been conducting the MPS study sinceApril 2006.
The next phase will involvee five urban school districtz infour states: Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Dallas and Austin,