Describes a tutoring program, Project Home With Books," in which volunteers from business and industry work individually with remedial readers in inner city schools. Teachers, tutors, and students have judged the program successful. (VJ)

The aim of this booklet is to provide guidelines for community involvement in elementary school educational programs. Included are a list of objectives for volunteer programs; a statement of school board policy on volunteers in Muskogee, Oklahoma schools; a teacher request form for volunteer services; an information sheet for volunteers; a list of…

Describes a reading program that used community volunteers to read aloud to elementary school children. (FL)

Describes a service learning program with a focus on literacy called the Student Literacy Corps. Describes how urban elementary school children, college students, professors, administrators, and community members worked, shared, and learned together. Includes a sample lesson. (SR)

The research for this booklet, which was conducted under the label of "The Black Community Schools' Project," had as its main purpose the production of a work which would describe some of the efforts being made by blacks in the area of educating children. The focus is on some of the independent black institutions on the pre-school through junior…

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…

The Tutorial Community Project (TCP) is a seven-year effort (1968-1975) designed to establish a model elementary school in the Los Angeles City School System. This document reports the project's accomplishments at Wilshire Crest and Dublin Avenue schools during the first year of the TCP. The main thrust of TCP is to develop a model, self-renewing,…

This guide discusses the basic requirements for administering Federal Work-Study (FWS) America Reads Challenge programs and outlines specific requirements related to FWS-funded community service positions. These programs offer colleges and universities an opportunity to help improve the reading skills of preschool school and elementary school…