Many elementary school teachers have always encouraged children to help each other. However, in the United Kingdom, interest is currently growing in 'peer tutoring', which takes the simple notion of cooperation between children and lends it more purposeful structure. The organization of peer-tutoring projects has come to be seen as an important option in the repertoire of British educational psychologists.
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