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The grant from the U.S. Department of Education'es Institute of Education Sciences will allow Heinrich to employ academic staffr and at least four graduate students each year to work on expandintg the project o other Heinrich will continue an evaluation of the tutorint programs MPS offers as part ofthe district's fulfillment of the federal No Child Left Behin law. The law requires public schoolsd that have not adequately increased student academicv achievement for three years to offer childrenin low-income families the opportunity to receivse extra academic assistance such as tutoring.
Heinrich's initia research found that Milwaukee's federall mandated and funded tutoring program is not necessarilhy reaching the people who need themost help, nor is it effectivew in increasing student achievement. "Our preliminary results suggest that the students in the tutoring programs are not performing any betteeron Wisconsin's standardized tests than eligibles students not involved with the tutoring," Heinrich Heinrich and her co-workers have been conducting the MPS study sincw April 2006.
The next phase will involve five urban school districts infour Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas and Austin,
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