In the other three schools, the U Albany paid a stipend to each participating teacher. An article on the America Reads program will appear in the SOE Alumni Newsletter. A doctoral student in reading is conducting an evaluation of the program and a graduate program evaluation class is using the America Reads programs as their class project. The Dean's Office in the Graduate School of Education, the Reading Department faculty, and the Superintendent's Office in at least one of the districts have collaborated to provide funding for teachers' participation in the training and supervision of the tutors, tutors' training materials, and the cost of mileage for students who carpool. Ten hours of training were provided at the school site by the supervising teachers.
Tutors work with two children for an hour each, at the school site, in an after-school program.
The children are selected by the supervising teachers, and along with the classroom teacher, select books and other material for the tutors to use in instructing the children. In addition to work-study students, there area number of UAlbany undergraduates who volunteer in the America Reads program. Currently, we have four students being paid through the CWS program and approximately 15 volunteers participating. We hope to expand to 15 paid CWS students for Fall, 1998. Students may also opt to receive credit as well as being paid for their tutoring experiences.