Resident Tutor Project. Title I Fund, Fund Number 58-7: 1971-72 Evaluation.

The Resident Tutor Project, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, was initiated in June 1968, in an effort to prevent skill deficits from progressing to such a point that they are beyond remediation within the relatively short span of a child's school years. The project was designed to provide additional resources to supplement classroom learning experiences through employing college students to tutor elementary and secondary students on a regular weekly schedule. It was hoped that the availability of tutoring service would provide students with the following: immediate tutorial service when learning difficulties become apparent; reinforcement in basic skill areas; opportunity for personal relationships with adults. During the 1971-72 school year, the Resident Tutor Project supplied tutors for 3,538 students in 68 elementary schools and in one junior and one senior high school in the Cleveland Public School system. In addition, 408 students in 21 non-public elementary schools and two non-public senior high schools received project services. During the summer school of 1972, 4,244 students in Grades One through 12 received tutoring service in the Cleveland Public Schools. No non-public schools were served in the summer. (Author/JM)