Experience Corps is an evidence-based literacy program operated by the AARP Foundation, that utilizes highly trained volunteers age 50 and over to tutor students reading below grade level in kindergarten through third grade. Reading on grade level by the end of third grade has been linked through research to success in school, productive work, healthy life choices, and reduced incarceration, among other positive life outcomes. Experience Corps supports anti-poverty strategies by cutting off the pipeline to poverty that begins at this critical juncture. The program improves the literacy proficiency rates of children while enriching the lives of our volunteers and strengthening schools in the communities we serve.
