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Download full textBanta, Trudy W.; Lawson, Sandra S. – 1980
In September 1978, the Lenoir City (Tennessee) school system initiated in two elementary schools a volunteer tutoring program called the Retirement Power in Education Project (RPIE). Fourteen volunteers, including twelve retirees, were trained to use Laubach reading materials in tutoring fourth and seventh graders. In evaluating the project one…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Elementary Education, Older Adults, Program Development
