Boston Teachers join PUB LIBs as Tutors

search-engines-web.com writes:

“With a week to go before the tutors are at their seats, [Mayor] Menino and other city leaders kicked off the Homework Helpers tutoring program yesterday at the recently renovated Codman Square Library in Dorchester.

The Boston Teachers Union initiative will pay 27 Hub teachers to spend two hours a week on some weekday evenings offering free tutoring. It’s also a good chance for the teachers union to be seen as proponents of – rather than obstacles to – progress.”

Boston Herald

Daniel Adds, I’m all for greater cooperation between schools and libraries, but I wonder if anyone’s studied the effectiveness of tutors by training (i.e. Are classroom teachers more effective one-on-one than either college students, or even peer tutors?)