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Peer reviewedGentile, Lance M.; McMillan, Merna – Reading Psychology, 1979
In this interview, a tutor in a correctional reading program, himself a former drug addict and jail prisoner, describes his childhood failures in reading, the public shool's failure to help him and other Spanish-speaking students, his eventual reading success in the jail reading program, and factors that account for the program's success. (GT)
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Educational Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
