Amazon.com description: Product Description: Sarsum Corda is a HUD-subsidized apartment complex in Washington, D.C., in which Georgetown University students have been tutoring primary school aged children for twenty years under the sponsorship of the Tenants' Association. In 1989-90 the program was reorganized, its focus shifting from doing homework with the children to helping them learn to read at grade level. Professor Hirsh's journal describes the growing pains of such a new program as the college tutors - and their faculty advisor - learn along with their young friends how much wit, tact, and energy are required to close one of our nation's most gaping social and educational chasms.