[Assam] CNN: Poverty isn't the biggest obstacle to edu? what is?-- Will power?

[umesh sharma]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/07/27/nclb.tutoring.ap/index.html
   
  Only 10 percent to 20 percent of the more than 1 million poor children eligible for tutoring have signed up. That is considered a dismal rate of participation....
   
  The law requires schools that get federal poverty aid and fall short of their yearly progress goals for two straight years to offer transfers to students. After three years of failure, schools must offer low-income parents a choice of tutors.
  The new policy will let 23 school districts flip that order, offering transfers second.
   
  That is significant because parents prefer tutoring to moving their child to a new school. Six times as many students took part in tutoring compared with school choice in 2003-04.....


Umesh Sharma
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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

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