Twenty programs in one city will provide 145,000 hours of tutoring to children in that city's elementary schools in a five-year period (that is, 7,250 hours of tutoring produced by each program x 20 programs), and it is estimated that this will be sufficient to raise reading and math test scores across an entire medium-size city, such as Baltimore, Richmond, or Seattle. (Larger cities will require more than 20 programs in order to raise test scores on a city-wide basis.)

It costs a total of $1,500,000 to place 20 programs into operation in one city. Of this amount, $1,000,000 will be awarded in 20 grants to the colleges in that city over a five-year period (that is, 20 grants x $50,000 per grant). The remaining $500,000 will be used by the National Education Project to underwrite the administrative cost of operating 20 programs in one city during the five-year grant period.

The total cost is less than $11.00 per hour of tutoring produced (that is, $1,500,000 divided by 145,000 hours of tutoring produced in five years).

For each $50,000 grant received by a college (a college may receive more than one grant), the college will agree to field a total of 145 undergraduates during the five-year grant period. As a result, 20 programs will provide a total of 2,900 tutors to the elementary schools of one city during a five-year period (that is, 20 grants x 145 undergraduate tutors per grant).

Each college is responsible for selecting the elementary schools where the undergraduates will tutor, but a college may not place tutors at more than two elementary schools during any single semester of the 10-semester, five-year grant.

As a indication of the remarkable effectiveness of the undergraduates from this Project, please see Results of the Tutoring for several actual evaluations written by classroom teachers.

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