James has promised to up his grades and is now enrolled in after-school tutoring.
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Since 2008, Mattecentrum has reached over half a million kids through after-school tutoring lesson in 19 cities and a series of online tools.
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President Clinton has particularly praised Chicago's schools, which have had a policy of keeping pupils back for the past three years (combined with extra tutoring and summer school).
The Arab American Association of New York is a human service agency that provides a multitude of services: basic case management, legal services, adult education programs, youth empowerment programs, and after-school tutoring.
The program provides underprivileged students in elementary through high school free tutoring, access to an afterschool center and scholarships.
Similarly, some 133, 000 students in Chicago are eligible for extra tutoring, but city school officials say they only have money to pay for 25, 000 to 30, 000 of them.
These accounts, which also grow tax-free, can be used to cover not only college but also precollege expenses such as private school, tutoring or the purchase of a computer.
These accounts, which also grow tax free, can be used to cover not only college but also precollege expenses such as private school, tutoring or the purchase of a computer.
Today, his Kliptown Youth Program provides school uniforms, tutoring, meals and activities to 400 children in the community.
Outside of health care, its work in education has 35 employees tutoring kids at a nearby school during lunch hour several days a week.
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The value of a federal voucher would probably be too small to pay for anything much except a bit of tutoring, online courses and after-school programmes.
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While at UCLA, I was fortunate to work with a group of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) students who took it upon themselves to create a tutoring and mentoring program for NHPI high school youth in Los Angeles called PIER (Pacific Islander Education and Retention).
But it is neither a school for problem children nor a tutoring service, she says.
Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and the Harvard Business School and obviously brilliant, started tutoring his Louisiana cousins in math via the internet.
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Moreover, many parents of primary or secondary school students find in-person tutoring to be inconvenient, costly (especially at the gas pump), and lacking in quality selection, especially compared to the wider range of tutors found online.
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There is evidence this is happening in several places--from helping small, rural or low-wealth schools where specialized courses would not otherwise be available to serving students who need special tutoring, or for whom attending the normal school day is not an option.
Still, withdrawals are tax-free if used for any educational expense, including tutoring, computer purchases or private primary or high school.
He highlights a bright spot: A building in the community converted to a makeshift classroom and library where residents can get tutoring help and then take the GED --- the high school equivalency exam.
She also wants to provide tutoring for the students from her first class when they head to high school next year, and she wants to eventually open a career center for them.
They did not take their arithmetic course. (Applause.) They need to talk to this young lady and get some tutoring. (Applause.) They need to stay after school. (Applause.) They need to get some extra study hall in there.
Extensive tutoring is sometimes seen as contributing to East Asian countries' high performance in international school comparisons, particularly in mathematics.
However, both measures do allow students in failing schools to switch to another public school after three years, or obtain federal dollars to use for private tutoring programs.
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