Online Tutoring
The Washington Post has an article today about online tutoring. (Free registration required.) The profile is of Prince George’s Memorial Library system and its use of Tutor.com. The library buys a regional license to the service, which provides live online tutors from 2 p.m. to midnight every day. (For those of you from the Seattle area, there is a similar arrangement through the King County Library system at www.kcls.org. Other library systems subscribing to Tutor.com are listed at this page at their website.)
It sounds promising. According to recent reports, many kids actually communicate more through chatting online than sending email.