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IMPORTANT NOTICE: As of fall 2001, the Excellence through Collaboration and Outreach (ECO) Center within the Graduate School of Education will no longer coordinate the UC Berkeley America Reads Program. The School-University Partnership Office within the Center for Educational Outreach, under the direction of Gail Kaufman, will assume responsibility for coordinating all aspects of the UC Berkeley America Reads program in cooperation with the UC Berkeley Financial Aid Office.

If you would like more information about America Reads please contact:

Daniel Liou, K-12 Outreach and Training Coordinator, Cal Corps Public Service Center, at (510) 643-0303 or send an email to dnliou@uclink.berkeley.edu.

WORK STUDY POSITIONS AVAILABLE!
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: As of fall 2001, the Excellence through Collaboration and Outreach (ECO) Center within the Graduate School of Education will no longer coordinate the UC Berkeley America Reads Program. The School-University Partnership Office within the Center for Educational Outreach, under the direction of Gail Kaufman, will assume responsibility for coordinating all aspects of the UC Berkeley America Reads program in cooperation with the UC Berkeley Financial Aid Office. If you would like more information about America Reads please contact: Daniel Liou, K-12 Outreach and Training Coordinator, Cal Corps Public Service Center, at (510) 643-0303 or send an email to dnliou@uclink.berkeley.edu.

What is the America Reads Challenge?

The America Reads Challenge is President Clinton's new initiative "to ensure that every American child can read well and independently by the end of third grade". The America Reads Challenge calls on schools, families, and communities to get involved in helping children read. President Clinton and Secretary Riley have called upon colleges to invest a significant portion of new increases in Federal Work-Study (FWS) funding toward tutoring children.

America Reads at UCB

In Fall of 1997 the University of California, Berkeley America Reads Program deployed 43 FWS tutors and 100 AmeriCorp student volunteers to provide tutoring in the surrounding schools. Tutoring was conducted both in and out of the classroom. Four special literacy pilots were developed to improve literacy rates in grades K, 1, 2, 4 and 6. Three pilots were directed by faculty in the Graduate School of Education and one by the Center for Extreme Ultra Violet Astrophysics. Each pilot, developed in partnership with the local school site, was responsible for the initial and on-going training of the tutors and for developing a research methodology for evaluating the results of their unique intervention. One pilot tested the impact of on-line language tutoring using specially designed software and another partnered the tutors with community mentors from the "I Have a Dream Foundation" and Stiles Hall, a local non-profit community organization.

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