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It's win-win for elderly tutors, grade-school kids

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 77, Clicks: 6) View Story

Roughly 2,000 volunteers currently work with about 20,000 students, but the Experience Corps - buoyed by positive feedback and encouraging research - hopes to double its scope within five years.

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#1 by nitajo posted ago

+2 apples

Experience Corps -- http://www.experiencecorps.org/index.cfm

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#2 by nitajo posted ago

+2 apples

A two-year, $2 million study completed in 2009 by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, involving 881 second- and third-graders in three cities, found that students with Experience Corps tutors made over 60 percent more progress with reading comprehension and sounding out new words than comparable students not in the program.

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