EDUCATION - Can Online Tutoring Reverse America's Embarrassing Academic Decline?

Every student who struggles with a subject -- Crotty with geometry, for instance -- longs for special assistance. In my era -- the Proto-Pleistocene Bowie Epoch -- there was no such animal as a paid personal tutor. Or, if there was, it was reserved for either the economically elite or those with learning disabilities. Nevertheless, the U.S. was often near the top of the class in global tests of academic achievement.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2012/11/30/can-online-tutoring-reverse-americas-embarrassing-academic-decline/