Education
Tarrant County after-school programs put emphasis on homework, tutoring
Eleven-year-old Ericka Police tried to work her way through a list of vocabulary words. Each time she struggled, a patient voice told her to look up the word she didn’t know.
Looking over her shoulder was Ernestine Simms-Kigh, youth services manager at the Salvation Army’s new after-school program in downtown Arlington.
"Always look up a word if you don’t know what it is," Simms-Kigh told the sixth-grader. "That’s really the only way you can learn a new word — you just have to look it up."
