The Second Grade Underachievers Program seeks to test the efficacy of educationally oriented play groups as a remedial educational technique as contrasted with individual tutoring, or a combination of tutoring plus educational play groups. The program attempts to interest and involve neighborhood agencies in more after-school programs that are educationally supportive in scope. Since seven-year-old children should be most receptive to educational material when it is presented creatively in the context of games, inasmuch as play is naturally more relevant to them than serious learning exercises, the project used innovative group play techniques to teach and reinforce learning by second graders diagnosed and referred to as underachievers by their teachers. The play technique, it is felt, might also overcome the anxiety that underachieving second graders might feel in the classroom. (JM)