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Improving educational outcomes for all students, whether at risk or not performing at full potential, is an important issue for educators and policymakers. Recently, tutoring programs have been identified as having the potential to turn academic failure or underperformance, into successes. Two studies were conducted to determine the impact of a tutoring program. Results of the studies showed that students improved and attained better grades with the support of trained adult tutors. Researchers also found that tutors could teach strategies during their tutoring sessions and that a student could learn the strategies while they worked on their class assignments. Finally, researchers found that some students continued to be successful after tutoring ended, indicating that they were able to continue using strategies learned as an automotive manner.