The Neighborhood Tutoring Program (NTP) is a unique and innovative "back to basics" tutoring program which strives to equip each student with 100% mastery of grade-appropriate reading and math skills. FLOC's copyrighted curriculum, intensively trained volunteer tutors, and frequently administered standardized tests ensure each participant's success.

For every 22 hours of tutoring completed, students in the program:

• increase their math levels by an average of one year and three months;
• increase their ability to read words fluently by an average of one year and three months, and
• improve their passage comprehension by one year and two months.

In addition to tutoring at FLOC, NTP's program is offered in elementary and middle schools in our neighborhood and in non-profit agencies throughout the city. These partnerships offer the best way to bring NTP's effective curriculum to the greatest number of students who need it as quickly as possible.

NTP Founder Christine Young started the program in 1994 after evaluating other programs for children in the area. "We started out with six kids and six tutors. In 2002, we served 550 children. We truly believe that helping a child understand the basics of reading and math through our back-to-basics approach is the best way to learn. Our promotions are based on individual assessments, and our method ensures that each FLOC tutoring student achieves 100% mastery in one level before progressing to the next. The extensive training and support that we provide to our tutors equips them with the tools they need, and they pass that confidence and enthusiasm on to our kids."

For more information, check out the links below, or contact ntp@flocdc.org

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