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Ferguson, Laura – Equity and Choice, 1986
Bilingual education and Mark's Meadow Laboratory School involves the use of adult tutors who work with non-English-speaking children within one of two international classrooms. The tutors serve not only as teachers but as psychological supports for children undergoing both linguistic and cultural adjustment. (GC)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Teachers, Elementary Education
Download full textCDS Report, 1990
This collection of descriptions of research at the Center for Research on Effective Schooling for Disadvantaged Students opens with the discussion of a synthesis of research on the effects of one-to-one tutoring programs used in first grade to prevent reading failure produced by Barbara Wasik and Robert Slavin. The synthesis reviews stringent…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Chicago Board of Education, IL. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1985
The findings of an evaluation of the Chicago Public Schools 1984 Summer Basic Skills Centers program are presented. The program, which relied on the extensive use of youth tutors as well as trained teachers, was designed to extend participants' mastery of skills in the basic curricula of reading and mathematics. Participating students came from…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Limited English Speaking
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 2000
This paper provides an overview of Reading One-to-One, a structured paraprofessional tutorial program designed to improve the performance of at-risk students in grades K-8, particularly low-income, minority, and second-language learners. The program builds on some elements of Reading Recovery and Success For All. The curriculum combines explicit…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, High Risk Students, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials
Berney, Tomi D.; Barrera, Marbella – 1989
Students Upgrading Mathematical Achievement (SUMA) is a part of the Bilingual Mathematics and Science Achievement project for Spanish-speaking Limited English Proficient (LEP) students. Its objective is to provide both remedial tutoring to students lacking mathematics skills and enrichment to students who are potentially gifted in mathematics.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education
Robledo, Maria del Refugio – 1990
A study was done to evaluate Partners for Valued Youth (PVY), an instructional cross-age tutoring program in San Antonio (Texas) designed to reduce dropout rates among Hispanic limited-English proficient (LEP) middle-school children, who are at risk of leaving school. The program has these students tutor younger, elementary school students. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Education
Robledo, Maria del Refugio – 1990
This handbook provides information about an innovative model, Partners for Valued Youth (PVY), that encourages "at-risk" students to stay in school and to set broader goals for themselves through a cross-age tutoring experience in which at-risk middle school students tutor younger, elementary school students. After a preface, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Education
