ADE Learning Without Walls™ program has expanded its program to Miami and Houston where we will be providing online tutoring services through the Houston Library System citywide.  The service is available to over 2 million Houston residents.  
 
In March, ADE's LearningWOW partnered with The Tom Joyner Morning Show to help Detroit Public Schools in their quest to retain and recruit students.  ADE's LearningWOW program donated 50 computers to the Detroit Public School System.
 
Tom Joyner broadcasted his morning show on Monday, March 29 from Renaissance High School, telling listeners on WDMK-FM (105.9) that he was supporting the district's "I'm In" campaign to attract more students to the City's schools.

"It's a desperate situation here," Joyner said, referring to the schools that are closing as enrollment shrinks. DPS emergency financial manager Robert Bobb joined him on air to talk about enrollment and his academic goals for the district.  The district has set goals to improve the statistics of more than three-quarters of the 900 eighth-graders who took a national math exam scored at "below basic" levels. In October 2008, some 57% of Detroit third- through eighth-graders essentially failed a state writing test. Detroit's graduation rate is 58%.  In the last 6 months of 2009, nearly 500 computers were stolen from schools in DPS, costing the district some $600,000.  The system is academically bankrupt. This is almost academic homicide," Bobb says, also stating that the district has set some very high academic goals to reach. The district has goals to obtain computers to help students improve their academic grades in math, science, English and writing, to help students stay in school and increase their graduation rates, to help students and adults acquire the basic skills necessary to qualify for the high-tech jobs officials are desperately trying to attract to Michigan, which has the U.S.'s highest unemployment rate.  

In support of the DPS's academic goals, Joyner along with ADE Board Member, Dr. Earlexia M. Norwood, Physician-in-Charge of the Henry Ford Medical Center-Troy, and the Northern Region Division Head of Family Medicine for Henry Ford Health System (HFHS), presented the school district of Mumford High School, on the east side of Detroit a certificate for computers to be used as a tool to enhance their efforts to provide a quality education, strengthen student performance and empower the community in these challenging times.  ADE’s Learning Without Walls (LearningWOW) initiative is aimed at enhancing student performance, literacy and self-esteem.  

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