It costs a total of $75,000 to get one program running in one city. Of this amount, $50,000 will be awarded to one college over a five-year period. The remaining $25,000 will be used by the National Education Project to underwrite the administrative cost of operating this program during the five-year grant period.

In return for the $50,000 grant, the participating college will agree to field a total of 145 undergraduates during the five-year grant period. These undergraduates, in turn, will produce a total of 7,250 hours of tutoring in five years (that is, 145 undergraduates x 50 hours of tutoring produced by each undergraduate).

The college is responsible for selecting the specific elementary schools in which the undergraduates will work. However, not more than one elementary school is allowed to receive tutors during the first semester of the five-year/10-semester grant, and not more than two elementary schools per semester are allowed to receive tutors during the remaining nine semesters of the grant.

For purposes of evaluating the long-term effect of the tutors, it is preferable that the college send the tutors to work in the same elementary schools during the entire five-year grant, but this decision is the college's to make.

If the college should choose to send the tutors to work in the same two elementary schools throughout the five-year grant, each elementary school would receive approximately 3,625 hours of tutoring in five years. This would provide needed tutoring to a large number of children in each school and also help considerably to raise the reading and math scores of both schools.

Please see Results of the Tutoring for several actual evaluations written by classroom teachers that demonstrate the remarkable effectiveness of the tutors from this Project.

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