Mt. Olivet After-School Program - Peer-mediated interventions for at-risk students

This article reports the results of peer-mediated instruction and Intervent ions on the academic performances of urban at-risk students in an after-sch ool program. The students in this project were African-American males who a ttended on urban elementary school. The after-school program was a partners hip between a large predominately African-American church, a public school. and The Ohio State University's (OSU's) College of Education. Students fro m the OSU's elementary education and special education programs worked alon g with the men of Mt. Olivet Church to provide educational opportunities fo r urban at-risk students. The improvement in academic performance of urban at-risk students in this study is consistent with the findings of other res earchers (Poser & Vandell, 1994).