It began in 1998 as an SAT tutoring program, with a dozen former Scarsdale High students, most of them at Ivy League schools, volunteering their assistance.
Vince Cordero, the chief executive of Tutors With Computers, responded to questions by e-mail, saying that he supported the creation of a state tutoring program with changes that allowed schools more control over which providers served their campuses and that required payment only if students' performance improved.
While the other students worked in their notebooks or with tutoring programs on computers, the three sounded out some new words — like "natural," "environment" and "tortoise" — and then read aloud as Mrs. Borg moved from one to the next.
Funding for tutoring programs is based on the volume of students tutored, and is provided by the federal Supplemental Education Services program through the city's Education Department.
Its Urban Mission committee sponsors the Tutoring Program, the oldest volunteer school tutoring program in the nation, and partners with a local elementary school in a story-reading program and yearly donation of books to all pupils.
In addition, 24 of the 38 community and high school districts have created their own tutoring programs to compete with the outside providers.
The Greek school system does not provide substantial education for teens, so students must supplement their morning lessons with afternoon tutoring programs.
Its goals include moving tutoring programs for athletes into academic departments and replacing athletic scholarships with need-based aid.
First I tutored the program with a list of 2,948 spams that my carefully handcrafted filters had caught in recent weeks.
The Türkischer Elternbund, an association of Turkish parents that runs an after-school tutoring program, shares the space with the occasional evening concert or workshop on taxes.
