For instance, the Little Rock, Ark., district tested 90 students before and after 40 hours of tutoring by two hastily organized companies this school year, said Dr. Lloyd Sain, director of supplemental services.
Moreover, while microcredit is being proposed worldwide as a powerful economic intervention and as a strong method through which to deliver other supplemental programs, there are few randomized controlled trials to support these claims and more studies are needed to rigorously evaluate whether microcredit offers a promising platform for delivering supplemental services.
If scores have not improved over three years, the district must pay for tutoring or other supplemental services.
"There is increased publicity," said Jeffrey Cohen, the president of Sylvan Education Solutions, a Baltimore-based company that has long provided supplemental services for needy students in New York.
However, the most immediate changes will appear next September, when children in at least 3,000 poorly performing schools around the country will be eligible for taxpayer-financed tutoring and other supplemental services, which can be provided by private companies, religious institutions or nonprofit organizations.
Districts that fail to meet their academic targets for 3 years must use their Title I funds to pay for supplemental education services (SES) that provide tutoring or other academic instruction.
A provision in the federal education law requires poorly performing school districts to reserve 20 percent of the federal financing they receive for economically disadvantaged students to pay for "supplemental education services," or tutoring, in middle and high school.
Effective clinician education and counseling, as well as the referral for supplemental support services must be implemented and documented in future research studies and clinical practice.
Supplemental services, on a limited basis, for home modifications and repair, transportation, and other things it may be difficult for the caregiver to do.
