Through Project Learning through Industry and Volunteer Educators (Project LIVE), the Children's Aid Society has been addressing problems of literacy and school dropout in an educational partnership between junior high schools in New York City and a number of major corporations. LIVE brings together junior high school students (grades 7 and 8) who are below grade level and matches them with volunteer tutors from participating corporations under the umbrella of a social-service agency. Students are bused from school to the tutors' places of business and back to school. This arrangement allows students to experience the business environment as well as to receive help. Recent research has indicated that the dropout rate for adolescents in the general population is three times that of Project LIVE students. In the 1987 evaluation, 118 students and 109 current tutors completed surveys about the project's impact on the dropout rate, college enrollment, employment rates, and the program's attractiveness to students. In all these areas, Project LIVE was rated an overwhelming success. Sixty-two percent of students thought they might have dropped out without Project LIVE, and 4 of 5 students actually did complete high school, with 52 percent going on for further education. Students were enthusiastic about the project, and considered that it improved their employment potentials. (SLD)