Delia A. Busby, Educator has left a new comment on the post "Mandated Tutoring Not Helping Md., Va. Scores":

I am Delia Armstrong Busby, Milken Educator and Harvard Fellow. I provide educational support services both as an supplemental services provider and educational consultant on dropout intervention.

My experience as a private consultant to school districts contradicts the information included here regarding measurable results for reading or math in one on one tutoring situations.

With well over a thousand students as a base for experience, the data I have compiled suggests that with the proper supervision and instructional competency that all children involved in our program get measurable change in the achievement markers.

To me, the comments posted do not represent a substantive assessment of what can be a complex approach to improving the achievement gap.