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Keefe, Carolyn – 1990
To deal with the time shortage problem while simultaneously stressing student educational development, a system was designed and implemented to manage a peer forensics coaching program. The program taps the peer coaching potential available on every team and generates academic credit and letter grades for the peer coaches by utilizing a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management by Objectives, Peer Teaching, Persuasive Discourse
Download full textPotter, Jana; Blankenship, Judy; Carlsmith, Laura – 1999
Considering 61 reading tutoring programs established in response to the "America Reads Challenge," this publication encourages all Americans to collaborate with classroom teachers and parents so that every child can read well and independently by the third grade. It discusses ways to build effective partnerships among the community, and…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Parent Participation, Primary Education, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedSakiey, Elizabeth – Reading World, 1980
Discusses the selection and training of student tutors for college reading programs, the supervision of tutors, and studies of the effectiveness of college-level peer tutoring programs. (GT)
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Research, Higher Education, Peer Teaching
Gold, Judith; Potter, Lance – 1999
Developed for the America Reads initiative, this paper presents the LEARNS (Linking Education and America Reads through National Service) Literacy Assessment Profile (LLAP), a student assessment system that is designed to improve providers' ability to deliver high quality literacy programs to students, assess students' literacy understanding, set…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Literacy
Fink, Diana; Carrasquillo, Carmen – 1994
Several retention strategies have been developed at Miramar College in San Diego, California, to reduce attrition and enhance institutional effectiveness. One of these, the PLACe tutorial center, is dedicated to empowering students to attain educational success. In spring 1992, developmental English students who did not use the PLACe Center had a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Program Effectiveness
Tripp, Amy Wilson; Turner, Barbara Siegel – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1986
Over a two-year period Hinsdale South High School (Chicago, Illinois) has successfully mainstreamed 59 hearing impaired students into such courses as English, mathematics, science, physical education, and business education. Program components include admission criteria, a Coordinator of Mainstreamed Support Services, counseling, interpreters,…
Descriptors: Deaf Interpreting, Extracurricular Activities, Hearing Impairments, High Schools
Ching, Noelani; Mahuka, Ruth – 1994
The Waikiki Lifelong Learning Center (WLLC) project was undertaken to establish a literacy consortium of visitor industry businesses and the University of Hawaii at Manoa and to develop/implement an instructional program that included bilingual/English-as-a-second language (ESL) and General Educational Development (GED)/pre-GED components. After…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Bilingual Education, Community Colleges
