UW researcher wins $3M federal grant - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The grant from the U.S. Department of Education'es Institute of Education Sciences will allow Heinricjh to employ academic staff and at least four graduates students each year to work on expandinh the project ootherd cities. Heinrich will continue an evaluation of the tutoring programs MPS offers as part ofthe district' fulfillment of the federal No Child Left Behind law. The law requiresw public schools that have not adequatelty increased student academic achievemenrt for three years to offer childrebnin low-income families the opportunity to receivwe extra academic assistance such as Heinrich's initial research found that Milwaukee'ss federally mandated and funded tutoring prograjm is not necessarily reaching the people who need the most nor is it effective in increasing student achievement.
"Our preliminary results suggest that the students in the tutoringh programs are not performing any betteron Wisconsin's standardized tests than eligible studentws not involved with the tutoring," Heinrichh said. Heinrich and her co-workers have been conductinf the MPS study sinceApril 2006. The next phasew will involve five urban school district s infour states: Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas and Texas.