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A nine-year-old student, according to his own mother, “was on the edge of failure and about to give up on himself.” We’ve heard this story all too often, and, most of the time, it doesn’t have a happy ending. Yet this one does. “He turns in assignments early now,” reports his mother, adding, “And he said ‘I’m proud of myself.’” 

What turned this around? Supplemental tutoring did. This sort of success story is commonplace when students receive individual instruction after school. We all know No Child Left Behind (NCLB) got a lot wrong. One thing it got right, however, is that it provides just this sort of individual instruction, in the form of free tutoring for low-income students in failing school districts.

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