Research suggests that quality home literacy activities make a difference in children's reading development. The federally funded Title I program of the Charlotte County, Florida school system promoted the role of parents as reading tutors in a way that supported the district's literacy development goals and philosophy. Parent involvement plans…

A study investigated the usefulness of an online writing lab, Smarthinking, in a college writing tutorial program. The study investigated 4 issues: what Smarthinking is and how it works; what students think of the program; what instructors think of the program; and whether Smarthinking is cohesive with writing center principles and procedures. A…

This Executive Summary provides information and details about Reading Recovery, an early intervention program for young readers who are experiencing difficulty in their first year of reading instruction. The summary first explains that Reading Recovery is a one-to-one tutoring program designed to serve the lowest achieving readers in which…

Self-help and realistic goals were keys to this Arizona community-based enrichment program that brought dropouts back to school and strengthened reading skills. (Editor)

A description of how peer tutoring can work with a systems approach. (HB)

Describes an innovative teaching system in which the student becomes his own teacher. (RK)

This article describes a treatment program for psychogenic learning problems which synthesizes the functions of therapist and teacher into one helping role. Several cases illustrating different applications of the therapeutic-tutoring procedure are described. (Author/EAK)

Examined are teacher education priorities of a program whose goal was to have first grade teachers feel confident enough to retain learning disabled children in their regular public school classes. (GW)

Increasing pressures on students to gain admission to highly competitive colleges has brought about an upsurge in tutorial services and the use of sample test questions, which are supposed to guarantee success on college admissions tests. Their effect, at best seems scant. (Author/RK)

Described is a 2-year tutoring program for handicapped elementary school children in special classes who are tutored by intermediate grade children who themselves have academic or behavior problems. (CB)

Helpful hints for making the best use of the valuable services tutors can render your schools. (Author)

Preliminary version presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (New York, March, 1967). Describes procedures for teaching retarded adolescents to use behavior modification techniques with younger patients. (RJ)

This study was designed to provide experimental data on the efficacy of tutoring and to provide specific outlines for the implementation of a tutoring project. The results indicated that fifth- and sixth-grade children facilitated measureable though limited reading development of younger children. (Author)