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...first teaching store in suburban Portland in 1979. Mainly through aggressive franchising, it quickly surpassed Reading Game in size, and now has 211 franchised centers and nine company-owned facilities in 39 states. At an average cost of $25 an hour, Sylvan provides help primarily in reading and math at all grade levels...
Huntington Learning Centers, Inc., smallest of these operations, has been in business since 1977. It owns 13 teaching marts, in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, and has sold franchises for 37 more in eleven states. It charges $19-$22 an hour for remedial reading and math and offers coaching for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) to college-bound students, a service its rivals are taking...
...quaint, residential-style Huntington center in River Edge, N.J., Eric Strovinsky, 9, seems very much O.K. today. On the verge last spring of being held back in second grade, Eric has been coming twice a week for 90-minute sessions in math and phonics since August. "He just wasn't keeping up in class," says his mother Donna. Now, however, his grades have climbed from Cs to Bs, and, says Donna proudly, "he gets his homework done. He has the discipline to do it by himself...
Bryant, a senior, is the leader of a Phillips Brooks House group that goes to the Deer Island minimum-security facility to tutor inmates hoping to pass the Graduate Equivalency Degree (GED). The GED, which covers math, English, science and social studies, offers the equivalent of a high school diploma--and, for many prisoners, a one-way ticket out of a life of crime...
This last carrel--on the ground floor of Lamont Library--proceeds to display a running list of more than 30 students' SAT scores. The math scores are consistently higher...