Asheboro library ‘Back-to-School Night’ to showcase new online tutoring service

ASHEBORO – All Randolph County students – including those in the city and county school systems, Uwharrie Charter Academy, private schools, and home schools, are invited to a “Back-to-School Night” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, August 15, at the Asheboro Public Library.

The event will showcase free resources that the library offers to support K-12 students, including Tutor.com, an new, online service that provides live, one-to-one tutoring in all subject areas through carefully vetted educators.

Students are invited to wear school colors to show their pride and will be able to test virtual resources, participate in brain games, and win prizes to help out in the new school year.

Availability of Tutor.com is part of an “Equal Access to Tutoring” project developed by the Asheboro library Youth Services staff and funded by a federal Library Services and Construction Act grant via the State Library of North Carolina. At the Asheboro library alone, staff estimate they receive five requests for affordable tutoring each week.

Tutor.com will be accessible at all seven library branches and remotely to anyone with a library card or REAL2 student ID.

In addition, the grant will fund 10 each of laptops, Chromebooks and iPads for the Asheboro library that students can check out and use anywhere in the library to access Tutor.com and other resources.

The Asheboro City Schools is a partner in the project to help promote the new resources.

The Asheboro library is located at 201 Worth Street. Call 336-318-6804 for further information.

The Equal Access to Tutoring project is supported by grant funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (IMLS grant number LS-23645-OLS-23).