October 25, 2010

Peer tutoring company begins expansion

By Bill Conrad, originally published on 9/14/10 by  Star Local News

Ian Anderson wants to change the education system in America. Instead of just talking about it, the Carroll High School senior has launched a Metroplex-wide peer tutoring service.

“I think there are so many problems with education,” Anderson said. “So many students fall through the cracks and don’t get the chances they should get. They are not connecting with the information for some reason, and I want to do my part to make sure that doesn’t happen.”

Anderson is one of the co-founders of Dallas Peer Tutors, which officially launched Monday.

The idea was born in 2006 when Vic Ramon, then a senior at Highland Park High School, started Highland Park Tutors. After speaking with Ramon, Anderson started Carroll Tutors last year. They are now taking the service to more than 25 schools across North Texas, with the possibility of additional expansion. As of now, high schools in The Colony, Lewisville, Flower Mound, Carrollton, Coppell, Plano, Allen and Frisco are all taking part in the program.

“We’re excited to bring peer-tutoring to more communities – it’s a truly unique and valuable addition to education,” Ramon said in a press release. “It’s just one of those things that should exist, and we just happen to be the people doing it.”

The program features peer tutors at each of the schools that are serviced. Anderson said one of the advantages of this system is that the tutors are in the same classes as the clients, meaning that they are both familiar with the teachers and the material.

“This program works,” he said. “It is students teaching students. The tutors know how to get an ‘A’ in the class, and that is taught to the client. Once we got our feet underneath us at Carroll, we realized the potential in this business. We saw expansion potential and saw that we had something incredibly powerful.”

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Filed under: Academic Learning Centers,Peer-Tutoring,Small Private Practices

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