Archives America Counts in Missoula UM faculty members are rising to the challenge made by Vice President Al Gore last year in America Counts, an initiative designed to improve children's skills in math. Like the America Reads program, America Counts, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, will send college work-study students and volunteers into schools this fall to tutor children nationwide.
Kids hear that from their parents.
The UM America Counts effort hopes to recruit 10 college students into a few pilot elementary, middle and high school classrooms this fall to work with younger students individually and in small groups.