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Direct linkCochran, Judith A.; Gardner-Andrews, Anna; Benson, Prescott W.; Durbin, Timothy; Peeler, Michelle – Education and Urban Society, 2017
This study profiles tutoring programs that empower urban youth within the Regional Institute of Tutorial Education (RITE), a community collaborative of universities, youth agencies, community service organizations, and school districts. Representative members of RITE detail how they address shared urban problems of academic deficits, school…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Empowerment, Community Programs, Youth Programs
Zimmer, Ron; Hamilton, Laura; Christina, Rachel – Economics of Education Review, 2010
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation has created pressure for districts to improve their students' proficiency levels on state tests. Districts that fail to meet their academic targets for 3 years must use their Title I funds to pay for supplemental education services (SES) that provide tutoring or other academic instruction. Many…
Descriptors: Tutoring, After School Programs, Public Schools, Urban Schools
Peer reviewedJones-Brown, Delores D.; Henriques, Zelma Weston – Social Justice, 1997
Uses experiences of a mentoring program to argue that mentoring programs represent a viable strategy for delinquency prevention and reduction, even for youth who have been adjudicated for serious offenses. The importance of careful design and concern for the special needs of the population to be monitored is discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Delinquency Prevention, Mentors, Program Development, Program Effectiveness
Kelleher, Constance; Riley-Tillman, T. Chris; Power, Thomas J. – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2008
Although over 15 years have passed since Witt (1990) noted that no empirical evidence exists to support the contention that a collaborative approach to consultation leads to more positive outcomes than a hierarchical or expert driven approach, this issue generally remains unaddressed (Schulte & Osborne, 2003). While the literature documenting…
Descriptors: Intervention, Expertise, Consultants, Comparative Analysis
Download full textWasik, Barbara A. – 1997
The America Reads challenge makes a national commitment to the goal that every child will read independently and well by the end of the third grade. The primary means of achieving this goal is to place one million volunteers in schools to tutor children in reading. However, little is known about the effectiveness of using volunteer tutors in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Disadvantaged Youth, Outcomes of Education
Peer reviewedBaenen, Nancy; Bernholc, Alissa; Dulaney, Chuck; Banks, Karen – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 1997
Results from a longitudinal study of the implementation of the Reading Recovery (RR) program in the Wake County Public School System (North Carolina) for 1990 through 1994 show achievement gains for RR students, although these gains lessen in recent years. Reasons for inconsistent benefits after the first year are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Cohort Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
Ribich, Frank M.; Barone, William P. – 1989
Sixteen underachieving gifted students at Oliver High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were identified for a pilot program called Project Inspire, which sought to improve student achievement and build self-esteem, especially for disadvantaged Afro-American students. Teachers were selected as mentors for the students, and the mentors were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Black Students, Demonstration Programs
Brown, Kathleen J.; Morris, Darrell; Fields, Matthew – Journal of Literacy Research, 2005
The present study replicated the original evaluation of the Howard Street tutoring model (Morris, Shaw, & Perney, Perney, 1990), an intervention for struggling readers in second and third grade. It also evaluated the effectiveness of supervised paraprofessionals (Title I aides) in delivering that tutorial. For an entire school year, teachers or…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Tutoring, Reading Difficulties, Intervention
Fass-Holmes, Barry; Ciriza, Frank – 1996
The Reading Recovery (RR) program of the San Diego City Schools (California) has expanded over the last 5 years and now includes 38 schools. This report documents the program's short-term and sustained efforts to increase reading achievement and its central office costs. RR is a Title I-funded early intervention program that uses one-on-one…
Descriptors: Black Students, Grade 1, Hispanic American Students, Hispanic Americans
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
Fashola, Olatokunbo S.; And Others – 1997
This report identifies programs that have proven to be effective and programs that show potential for improving academic achievement among Latino youth in the elementary and middle grades. It targets programs specifically designed for this population and programs that have worked for all children and that have been disseminated for use with Latino…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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
