Students participating in the 1992 summer session demonstrated impressive results. In the six-week program, reading, language, and mathematics skills jumped 20 percent, bringing many of the students from below national averages to, or above, national norms. Above all, he argues, intervention arrives far too late by the time students reach high school. Relationships with parents and teachers are often frayed beyond repair. Peer pressures kick in.
Students are too far behind.
But in the early years, approval from adults means more than the approbation of peers and a little help can go a long way. Quantum Corp. founder David Brown sees Project HELP as part of the larger educational reform movement.