State Compensatory Education (SCE) is a supplemental program designed to eliminate disparities in (a) student performance on assessment instruments administered under Chapter 39 of the Texas Education Code (1995, amended 2007), and (b) the rates of high school completion between students who are at risk of dropping out of school, as defined by…

This paper provides an overview of Helping One Student To Succeed (HOSTS), a language arts program that uses one-on-one mentoring to help low-achieving students improve reading and problem-solving skills. Goals of the program include improving academic achievement in reading; building student problem-solving skills; and improving student behavior,…

This two-year evaluation study reviews the Perach Tutorial Project, a one-to-one tutorial project in Israel in which university students tutor children in socially disadvantaged areas in return for a partial tuition scholarship. The report contains: (1) an introduction; (2) a detailed description of the operation and structure of the project; (3)…

Reports the results of a survey of 82 schools in South Australia and 40 schools in the United States concerning their use of paraprofessionals in their reading/tutoring programs. (FL)

An evaluation of twelve different New York City Umbrella Programs coordinated in New York City public schools during the 1974-1975 school year is contained in this document. This report presents a description and evaluation of these programs, together with the major findings. The programs were implemented in the following areas: (1) tutoring in…

This final report discusses the activities and outcomes of a project designed to investigate the sustainability of two federally funded intervention programs by school staff. The first, Eastlake High School Inclusion Program, implemented processes and instructional interventions designed to support the full inclusion of students with disabilities…

Peer tutoring and other innovative uses of students in teaching roles have received considerable attention because of the academic and social gains which can be observed among participating children. Teachers who want to try peer tutoring often encounter difficulty in devising workable programs for their own classrooms, however, because most…