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Download full textChicago Board of Education, IL. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1985
The findings of an evaluation of the Chicago Public Schools 1984 Summer Basic Skills Centers program are presented. The program, which relied on the extensive use of youth tutors as well as trained teachers, was designed to extend participants' mastery of skills in the basic curricula of reading and mathematics. Participating students came from…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Limited English Speaking
Wood, Margo; And Others – 1983
The major goal of the University of Southern Maine Reading Academy Project was to demonstrate the effectiveness of process-oriented, diagnostic/prescriptive instruction by trained tutors in raising the literacy levels of adults reading at less than a sixth grade equivalency level. Preservice and inservice training using an empirical model of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
