Boom in Online Tutoring Means Another Cost for Many Students
For-profit tutoring companies are targeting students with online ads these days, and the message is tempting. Why spend so long studying, the ads say, when paid tutors or study guides can help you get better grades with less work? At Pennsylvania State University, that marketing has grown so loud, and the commercial tutoring so popular, that the student government voted last month for a resolution calling on the university to beef up its own free tutoring options and to do a better job spreading the word about them.