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CITY, LIBRARY INITIATE ONLINE AFTER SCHOOL HOMEWORK HELP SERVICE
Posted on Monday, September 30 @ 16:08:54 EDT by jfbailey
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WPCNR CITY HALL TRIBUNE HERALD, By Rick Ammirato, Mayor's Press Office, September 30, 2002: Mayor Joseph M. Delfino announced the launch of a new program today, expanding his Digital Divide initiative. Thanks to private funding from the White Plains Library Foundation, a new online after-school homework help service, Online Tutor @ the Library will be hosted by the White Plains Public Library at technology centers at the Library, the Youth Bureau and the Thomas H. Slater Center. The free service will also be available to White Plains Library cardholders through the Library’s home page.
To implement this service, the Library has chosen Tutor.com, a leading provider of online tutoring services for education institutions and individual students. Online Tutor @ the Library will provide students in grades 4 through 12 with instant access to expert tutors for 20-minute sessions in an Online Classroom in core academic subjects including math, science, English and social studies.
The Online Classroom
The Online Classroom provides a rich environment for individualized learning. Students and tutors can review specific homework questions using features such as controlled chat, an interactive white board, shared Web browsing. Tutors and students remain anonymous, and sessions are routinely reviewed for quality control.
Tutor.com
Tutor.com was founded in partnership with The Princeton Review and Scholastic. Its tutors are specially trained and background checked by a national firm. They are certified teachers, college professors, instructors for The Princeton Review, and professionals with college degrees in the subjects they teach.
White Plains Library Continues to Pioneer
For more than 15 years, the White Plains Public Library has offered some type of formalized homework help for children. Since 1999, its Teacher in the Library program has provided tutoring after school at the Library in all K-6 homework subjects with a professional, certified teachers from the School District.
Online Tutor @ the Library will expand this program online and reach out to every school child in White Plains through grade 12.
Library Foundation Patrons of Learning
The White Plains Library Foundation was incorporated in 1995 to raise funds in support of the long-range goals of the White Plains Public Library. In 2001, the Foundation completed its first Campaign and is now focusing its efforts on projects with immediate need and impact, such as Teacher in the Library.
Rotary Club Announces gift
The White Plains Rotary Club just announced a gift in support of this project for the upcoming school year. Information about the White Plains Library Foundation can be found at www.whiteplainslibrary.org.
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