Studies indicate that sustained individualized attention and after school tutoring can raise reading levels when combined with parental involvement and school instruction. The President then took a major step as a part of America Reads in promoting his national service agenda by asking that a significant portion of Federal Work Study funding be dedicated to tutoring children in reading. The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper Sylvester and the Magic Pebble William Steig Jackson Academy Jackson Academy is a public school in East Orange, NJ, serving students in grades 1-5. For the last five years, the school has participated in the City's unique school of choice program. This program allows parents who live in East Orange to send their child to any school in the City.
Schools participating in the program have a unique focus in addition to a core curriculum.
Jackson Academy's focus is humanities through technology and global awareness. Each student works with his or her tutor once a week for two hours. It can be found both in bookstores and on-line. Please send these dictionaries to Chris Byers '86 . The Orange Public Library serves a diverse clientele including Americans of different ethnic backgrounds and a thriving immigrant population comprised of West Indians, Asians and Central Americans.