Tutoring kids who don't need it is a booming business in affluent areas where parents want to stack the deck
- Written by Pawan Dhingra, Professor of Sociology and American Studies, Amherst College
Many families shell out $200 monthly on private 'learning centers.'Beanosity, CC BY-SAMany relatively well-off parents drive their kids to special activities after school. On top of trips to soccer practices and games or piano lessons and recitals, they increasingly make one more stop: a trip to their local after-school tutoring center.
In most...