She said the foundation worked with her from middle school, offering tutoring, internships and other college-prep opportunities unknown to her immigrant parents from Guatemala.
Now used in math classes in a Manhattan middle school, the School of One approach allows teachers and administrators to choose among computer instruction, traditional classes or even remote tutoring to keep students on track.
With this program, it's setting aside 5,000 employee hours for volunteership in the city's middle schools through tutoring, mentorship or field trip chaperoning, and they're packing 2,000 backpacks for children.
Her mother, who retired as a French teacher at the Don Mills Middle School, a public school in Toronto, now provides tutoring services to child actors.
In Singapore for example, the number of juku almost tripled between 1994 and 2002 (Bray, 2003) and in 2008 in Korea, more than 70% of middle school students received extensive tutoring outside of the country's formal education system sampled and assessed by international comparative studies (Bray and Kwo, 2013).
My middle school math teacher, who tutored me and cared about me and never gave up on me.
College students with expertise in the area of the human circulatory system were observed as they tutored middle school students one-on-one about this topic.
Michelle Houston, whose son Walter attended middle school in Bedford Stuyvesant and was tutored by Kaplan, had nothing but scorn for many parents.
Ideally, even school systems could offer some weekly activities and tutoring for middle school students interested in this option.
"During middle school we had every kind of tutor known to man," said his mother, Diane.
