Description of tutoring programs now in progress, begins with the assumption that a majority of the nation's schools operate such programs. (RB)

A project has been planned to help individualize instruction and change the learning climate by using elementary school pupils to assist each other in learning. A "tutorial community" is being established involving an entire ghetto school of 1,500 students (Pacoima Elementary School, Los Angeles) in intra- and intergrade tutoring, student…

This is a first-year report of an attempt to create a tutorial community in an elementary school. The goal is a learning community of students, parents, teachers, administrators, and researchers who are expected to work together in planning and conducting instruction. The students will hopefully develop a capacity for self-directed study and…

In order to bridge the gap between educational research and practice, a study was concluded to identify specific reading skills which posed particularly difficult problems for Mexican American first grade children, but apparently caused little difficulty for their Anglo counterparts. Seventeen words emerged as being particularly difficult for the…