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Direct linkNesselrodt, Pamela S.; Alger, Christianna L. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2005
This article describes a viable alternative to hiring full-time certified teachers or to using lay volunteers to provide children at risk of failing in school with academic coaches (tutors). The Academic Coaching Program described herein recruited and trained students enrolled in a university's school of education programs to serve as academic…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Grade 8, Grade 7, College Students
