Edward E. Gordon
September 2002
This useful, 122-page book by Edward E. Gordon, who runs the Chicago-based Imperial Tutoring firm, is a consumer's guide to tutoring services: how to find a good one, what to look for, what to expect, what it will cost, etc. There's a catalog of several dozen tutoring outfits, even a Better Business Bureau list of standards for this line of work. Parents seeking tutors for their kids may find this helpful. So should state and local education officials struggling with the "supplementary services" provision of the No Child Left Behind act, under which (limited amounts of) Title I dollars may be deployed for the purchase - by parents - of tutoring services (and other supplements) from private providers that make it onto state-approved lists. The ISBN is 0873678400. The publisher is Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation. You can get more information from http://www.pdkintl.org/products/npf021.htm.
