Suggests ways of diagnosing problems in students' study habits and offers strategies for improving study skills and test taking strategies. (SRT)

Most existing studies of pupil-pupil interactions in special education have been psychology-based and have not considered the significance of students' social background. An ethnographic study examined the attitudes of academic and remedial British secondary students toward handicapped or otherwise deviant students. Results raised questions about…

Discusses three principles for use by volunteer tutors to use in monitoring children's oral reading: (1) maintaining an adequate pace in the lesson, (2) helping students make sense of what they read, and (3) helping the student to read what is actually on the page. (FL)

Provides a personal account of tutoring an illiterate community college student athlete. Discusses the problem of finding appropriate reading materials for adults with low skill levels. Traces the tutored student's progress, problems, and decisions for future education. (DMM)

Pupils, student tutors, and teachers at local London schools were asked for their opinions of the program in which London University undergraduates help teach science, mathematics, and engineering at their schools. Pupils found lessons easier to follow, tutors got useful practice in communicating scientific ideas, and teachers found lessons more…

New features are described which were added to the business and office teacher education program currently in existence at the University of Minnesota in Duluth. Teaching approaches used are individualized instructional systems and traditional, group-scheduled situations. Classroom management (tutoring) experiences, a professional education…

The Ball-Stick-Bird method of teaching reading, in which a line, circle, and angle are used to make all the letters, was tested with 48 boys (8-12-years-old) in a special education program for emotionally disturbed children. (Author/IM)

Describes the Brookwood Child Care's supplementary education program for disadvantaged foster children. The program includes tutoring and a summer project. Philosophy that speaks to the learning capacity of deprived children and teaching techniques are discussed. (MS)

Various topics are discussed in this issue of "The Achiever", the U.S. Department of Education's biweekly bulletin for parents and community leaders on "No Child Left Behind," the historic, bipartisan education reform law signed by President Bush in January 2002. This issue includes the following articles: "President Bush Announces New Education…

Noting that early intervention is insufficient for many children because they struggle in learning to read for an array of reasons, this book highlights the need for expert, intensive, and focused instruction in reading beyond the primary years in addition to identifying and describing effective practices for teaching those students in grades 3 to…

Research has shown that well-designed tutoring programs that use volunteers and other nonprofessionals as tutors can be effective in improving children's reading skills. Students with below-average reading skills who are tutored by volunteers show significant gains in reading skills when compared with similar students who do not receive tutoring…

This executive summary of Georgia Reading Excellence Act Demonstration Sites (GA READS) includes the Reading Excellence overview; Georgia's plan and goals; state activities; a timeline; local activities; and a budget. The overview states that the Reading Excellence Act was authorized to carry out the following purposes: teach every child to read…

This document contains the full text of the following invited papers from ICCE/ICCAI 2000 (International Conference on Computers in Education/International Conference on Computer-Assisted Instruction): (1) "Matching the Infoverse: About Knowledge Networks, Knowledge Workers, and Knowledge Robots" (Joachim Hasebrook); (2) "Learning…

Many faith communities partner with schools to provide tutoring, safe havens, after-school programs, mentoring, and summer activities; they also inspire their membership to volunteer on behalf of children, youth, and families in the nation's schools. This booklet describes several faith community initiatives in a variety of areas that support…

The purpose of this study was to see if cross-age tutoring by high schoolers would have an effect on the students' understanding and ability to write a short story. High schoolers, in an elective creative writing course, were paired up with sixth graders from a local feeder elementary. The high schoolers spent time studying specific short story…