The solution to the problem of helping minority students rests with improving the staff of tutoring programs. Administrators of programs need to pay tutors, recruit minority tutors, provide a variety of services, and encourage dialog among those involved. The new direction'' minority tutoring must go is towards making the desire to help minority…

Forty randomly selected, nonvolunteer, low achieving ninth graders selected from four classes in an inner city junior high school, were assigned the role of tutor to elementary school children in order to determine if this practice was promising as a method of compensatory education. In three of the four classrooms, the tutors and nontutors…