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Quote: What the offshore consumer services industry needs, it seems, is a solid success story in some promising market. A
leading candidate to watch, according to analysts, is TutorVista, a
tutoring service founded two years ago by Krishnan Ganesh, a
45-year-old Indian entrepreneur and a pioneer of offshore call centers. Concerns about the quality of K-12 education in America and the
increased emphasis on standardized tests is driving the tutoring
business in general. Traditional classroom tutoring services like
Kaplan and Sylvan are doing well and offer online features. And there
are other remote services like Growing Stars, Tutor.com and SmarThinking. Yet
TutorVista, analysts say, is different in a number of ways. Other
remote tutoring services generally offer hourly rates of $20 to $30
instead of the $40 to $60 hourly charges typical of on-site tutoring.
By contrast, TutorVista takes an all-you-can-eat approach to
instruction. Its standard offering is $99 a month for as many 45-minute
tutoring sessions as a student arranges.

Note: What I'm wondering is when we'll start outsourcing a lot of the simple grading stuff that teachers do now. You want to free up some time to learn, start sending the paper offshore.