Horton's Kids are the lucky recipients of “mobile tutoring,” in which children are bused from their dangerous neighborhood to federal office buildings replete with volunteers and rich academic materials. On Mondays and Tuesdays, tutoring takes place in the Rayburn House Office Building and on Wednesdays, tutoring is at the U.S. Department of Education.

Each child works one-on-one with trained, volunteer tutors who help the child master learning goals appropriate for their academic level and which complement the new DCPS grade-level standards.

Objective testing has shown that Horton’s Kids’ mobile tutoring works. Despite attending some of Washington, D.C.’s lowest-performing schools, the children have made great strides. At the end of this past school year, Horton’s Kids’ older children had narrowed their reading deficit from 2.13 grades behind to .88 grades behind while the younger children were, on average, one grade ahead in their reading ability.

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