HISD hopes volunteer initiative will help kids read

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The nation's seventh-largest school system put out a call for 1,500 volunteers - business professionals, retirees and others - to work weekly with first-graders across the district who are struggling to read. The volunteer effort is part of Superintendent Terry Grier's latest literacy plan, which sets a goal that all students will read on grade level by third grade. Worthy studied America Reads, former President Bill Clinton's 1996 initiative that included sending college work-study students to tutor elementary school children in reading. Fifteen schools will try out a virtual program that connects the adults and youngsters via phone and computer. The TutorMate computer program, in use in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and other school systems, includes six hours of online training, according to Barbara Gilbert, a company director. 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