Education • Rethink the role of tuition to support students

I read Professor Jason Tan’s oped “Private tutors, including for low-income students, may be supplanting the role of teachers” (Oct 22).

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As someone working with families and children at the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC), I wondered what role community groups like ours should play in this changing educational landscape, especially for students from low-income families?

Tuition support has long been seen as a way to help students to keep pace with peers. But this approach can turn learning into an arms race, measuring progress only by exam scores.