Students assessed a Special Educational Opportunity tutorial program and specified, when appropriate, their reasons for nonutilization. Results suggest that tutorial programs offered to students on a voluntary basis, staffed by their peers and operated on a one-to-one interaction, should be examined. (Author)

The article outlines five steps to follow in implementing a successful tutor program for children with special educational needs. (SBH)

Discusses discoveries about the ways writing is being taught in one university, based on student attitudes toward writing as they were revealed in a tutorial writing program. (DD)

The study examined effects of tutoring lower functioning students on 12 behaviorally disordered students tutors (third through fifth grades). Although anecdotal reports strongly favored tutoring, all objective measures (i.e., absences, disciplinary referrals, achievement test performance, behavior rating scales) failed to indicate behavior change…

A peer tutoring approach can combine handicapped and nonhandicapped learners in a way that decreases prejudice toward the handicapped students. The importance of administrator and staff support is stressed. (CL)

Three studies involving 128 elementary students indicated that classwide peer tutoring, compared to teacher-mediated procedures, produced more student academic responding and higher weekly scores on spelling, arithmetic, and vocabulary tests. Findings were replicated with manipulations of content taught/tested. (CL)

AmeriCorps is composed of three programs, State and National; National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC); and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA). The focus of this report is on the AmeriCorps State/National program. Education-related activities have been a priority for AmeriCorps' parent organization, the National Corporation for Public…

As a direct result of the passage of the America Reads Challenge Act in 1997, Mt. Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has developed a reading tutor program. The program includes a college credit course and on-site visits by college faculty supervising student tutors. This article includes the rationale for development of a credit course for reading…

A study examined the feasibility of e-mail tutoring at Winthrop University, a medium-sized state supported liberal arts university with limited technology access. Initially it looked at the questions of directive versus nondirective methods in tutoring, but it quickly spread to questions of submission, formatting, and strategy. A total of 26…

The solution to the problem of helping minority students rests with improving the staff of tutoring programs. Administrators of programs need to pay tutors, recruit minority tutors, provide a variety of services, and encourage dialog among those involved. The new direction'' minority tutoring must go is towards making the desire to help minority…

A look at the technique of programed tutoring, which uses a nonprofessional adult tutor, as a method for teaching handicapped children. (AK)

School systems today are rediscovering what was well-known in yesterday's one-room schools -- that tutoring of younger students by older students works. (Author/JN)