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Adler, Jerry – Newsweek, 1998
Examines the increasing demand for and proliferation of commercial tutoring services for grade school students. Discusses the approaches of several such programs, as well as the goals and attitudes of parents enlisting such services for their children. (HTH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Performance Factors, Remedial Instruction
Summary of the P.A.S.S. Program (Project Assuring Student Success), Mercy College of Northwest Ohio.
PDF pending restorationHarter, James L. – 2000
The paper describes an academic support program at Mercy College of Northwest Ohio. The Project Assuring Student Success (PASS) Program is multi-faceted and comprehensive, designed to help students find success in their academic endeavors. The first phase of this program was the development and implementation of the Student Success Center. Some of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Programs, Community Colleges, Program Implementation
Download full textAlbuquerque Public Schools, NM. Planning, Research and Accountability. – 1987
Albuquerque (New Mexico) public schools used a Title IV Part A grant to improve academic and behavioral functioning of American Indian elementary and secondary school students. The program's focus was tutoring provided to 899 Indian students from Canoncito Navajo Reservation, the Isleta Pueblo, and the city. A project coordinator, a resource…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Education, American Indians, Elementary Secondary Education
Albuquerque Public Schools, NM. Planning, Research and Accountability. – 1986
Public schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico, used a Title IV Part A grant to assist American Indian elementary and secondary school students in receiving passing grades and improving school-related behaviors. Canoncito Navajo Reservation, the Isleta Pueblo, and urban Indian students in Albuquerque participated in the program. Personnel consisted of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Education, American Indians, Elementary Secondary Education
Balfanz, Robert; McPartland, James; Shaw, Alta – 2002
The push for higher academic standards has resulted in an increase in the numbers of high school students needing extra help. The need for extra help is most pervasive in high-poverty areas and most high school students need extra help not in traditional basic elementary skills but in reading, mathematics, and advanced reasoning skills. Most…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, College Bound Students, Critical Thinking
