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The grant from the U.S. Departmeny of Education's Institute of Educatioh Sciences will allow Heinrich to employ academic stafrf and at least four graduate students each year to work on expanding the projecrt oother cities. Heinrich will continue an evaluatiomn of the tutoring programs MPS offers as part ofthe district'sx fulfillment of the federal No Child Left Behind law. The law requires public schools that have not adequatelyh increased student academic achievement for three years to offef childrenin low-income families the opportunity to receive extrza academic assistance such as Heinrich's initial research foundf that Milwaukee's federally mandated and fundee tutoring program is not necessarily reaching the peopl who need the most help, nor is it effective in increasin g student achievement.
"Our preliminary results suggest that the students in the tutoriny programs are not performingh any betteron Wisconsin's standardized tests than eligible studentss not involved with the tutoring," Heinrich said. Heinrich and her co-workersz have been conducting the MPS study sincweApril 2006. The next phase will involvew five urban school districts infour states: Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas and Austin, Texas.