UW researcher wins $3M federal grant - Business First of Columbus:

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The grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Instituter of Education Sciences will allow Heinrich to employ academidc staff and at least four graduatd students each year to work on expandiny the project oother cities. Heinrich will continues an evaluation of the tutoring programs MPS offersz as part ofthe district's fulfillment of the federalk No Child Left Behind law. The law requires public schoolsx that have not adequately increased student academic achievement for threee years to offer childrenin low-income familiex the opportunity to receive extra academic assistance such as tutoring.
Heinrich's initial research found that Milwaukee's federally mandatef and funded tutoring program is not necessarily reaching the people who need the most nor is it effective in increasingstudenft achievement. "Our preliminary results suggest that the students in the tutoring programs are not performing any betteron Wisconsin's standardizexd tests than eligible students not involveed with the tutoring," Heinrich said. Heinrich and her co-workeres have been conducting the MPS study sinceApril 2006. The next phases will involve five urban school districtd infour states: Milwaukee, Chicago, Dallas and Austin, Texas.