'America's tutor boom': By the numbers

Public schools may be suffering, but the private tutoring business — a $5 billion industry — is growing like gangbusters

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Times may be tough for many Americans, but, as the quality of public education grows shakier, it still pays to be a tutor — or at least a corporate tutoring firm. While the rest of the economy has sputtered and stagnated, the "supplemental education" sector has grown tenfold over the last decade. Here, a brief guide, by the numbers to "America's tutor boom":

$5 billion

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