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It has been a pleasure to work as a volunteer with Read to Succeed Buffalo and its Experience Corps Tutoring program.

Audrey Kaplan has spent much of her retirement helping children with their literacy skills. As a tutor at AARP Experience Corps, she offers her time and knowledge to children who

Volunteering more than 100 hours per year is particularly good at alleviating the loneliness of older adults, research finds.

Volunteering not only fulfills a sense of purpose for older adults by helping others, it also can alleviate loneliness, especially when volunteering more than 100 hours per year, according to a University of Michigan study.

Social connection offers physical, mental, and emotional benefits

Experience Corps is run by the Washington, D.C.- based AARP Foundation. After AARP announced that it could no longer fund the program, a group of Baltimore-area tutors launched a campaign to keep it going.

Baltimore City leaders are celebrating the return of a tutoring program for elementary school students.

For some, the holidays are anything but the most wonderful time of the year. Dr. Linda Fried, dean of the Columbia School of Public Health shares strategies to combat feelings of sadness and isolation, especially for women.

Billions of dollars are being spent on tutoring in the US. Will it be enough to help schoolchildren make up for pandemic learning loss? An education economist weighs in.

 After two consecutive COVID-disrupted academic years, schools desperately need tutors to help students catch up to their grade level. Districts flush with federal money are ramping up tutoring p