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Download full textCurtis, Deborah A.; Hurtado, Rosemary – 2001
The America Reads Project is a program that trains San Francisco State University (SFSU) undergraduates to serve as tutors in local elementary schools. This paper focuses on the findings from the 3rd year of the project (1999-2000). For the 3rd year, 55 undergraduates were trained in a 3-unit course. Eleven elementary schools participated in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness, Reading Instruction
Allen, Camille A. – 1996
A major crisis facing urban education is the inability of predominantly white, middle-class college students to deal with the realities of the urban primary school. A program that brings education majors into the urban school is described. The idea of partnership is the guiding principle of this program, in which college students, local teachers…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Students, Education Majors, Higher Education
Tartter, Vivien C. – 1996
In each of 3 years, 20 City College of New York undergraduates from New York City public inner city school backgrounds read to and mentored individual second graders in a Harlem public school in a program supported by the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). Supporting academic experience aimed to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, College School Cooperation, College Students, Elementary School Students
