Tutoring, 2006: Two Million Students, $2.2B Smackaroos

Get used to it. Private tutoring, and its online variations, are continuing to grow, according to this SF article (One for the books). Online tutoring "accounts for about 6 percent of the $2.2 billion U.S. private tutoring market, which reached 1.9 million K-12 students last school year, according to Tim Wiley, senior analyst at Eduventures, an education and research consulting firm in Boston."