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The grant from the U.S. Department of Education'se Institute of Education Sciences will allowq Heinrich to employ academic stafr and at least four graduate students each year to work on expandinf the project oother cities. Heinrich will continue an evaluatio of the tutoring programs MPS offers as part ofthe district'ds fulfillment of the federal No Chil d Left Behind law. The law requires publicx schools that have not adequatelgy increased student academic achievement for threew years to offer childrenin low-income families the opportunitt to receive extra academic assistance such as tutoring.
Heinrich'sz initial research found that Milwaukee's federally mandated and funded tutoring program is not necessarilyy reaching the people who need the most nor is it effective in increasingstudent achievement. "Our preliminary results suggest that the studentz in the tutoring programs are not performing any betteron Wisconsin's standardized tests than eligible students not involve with the tutoring," Heinrich said. Heinrich and her co-workers have been conductingy the MPS study sinceApril 2006.
The next phase will involvre five urban school districts infour states: Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas and Austin,
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