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Wallace, Yolanda Gayles – 1990
A volunteer program coordinator developed and implemented an 8-month practicum study that provided opportunities for interaction between 20 elderly adult tutors--residents of 2 senior citizen facilities--and 37 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students at five elementary schools in low- and middle-class metropolitan black communities. The tutoring…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Blacks, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades
Lanier, Cynthia C. – 1991
This paper describes a program in which community members (retired citizens, parents, and others) provided tutorial services over a 12-week period to five learning disabled primary grade students in a resource room program. Comparison of pretest and posttest results showed a greater than 20 percent increase in reading scores. Weekly spelling test…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Primary Education, Problem Solving
