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Download full textBrod, Pearl – 1970
Underachieving ninth grade students from low socioeconomic backgrounds were tutored by college students from similar backgrounds. Questionnaires were then completed by the tutees, tutors, school staff and the parents of tutees. For over half the tutees, an improvement in grades was reported. Changes in educational motivation, attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Development
