Lisa wilson remembers the day that she realized her daughter, Alexandra, a seventh-grader at Young Middle School in Atlanta, was dangerously close to giving up on math. "You can always tell when something is wrong with your child," Wilson says. Alexandra, who had always been an honor student, had just left her after-school algebra tutoring session, which she had begun taking after receiving an F in the course on her report card. "When she walked out of tutoring, she just had this look on her face," Wilson says. "I asked her what was wrong, and she said, 'I just don't get it,' and she started crying."
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