SMART Reading is a children's literacy non-profit, volunteer-driven tutoring program local to Oregon for at-risk K-3 readers.
SMART was developed by Neil Goldschmidt and the law firm Ater Wynne Hewitt Dodson & Skerritt, LLP in 1992.
[1] The program's effectiveness is backed by a two-year study performed at the Eugene Research Institute which indicates SMART students outperform similar students in word identification and word comprehension by nearly a half standard deviation.
[2][6] SMART aims to partner foremost with schools that have a high percentage of children from low-income families.
[4] In 2010, SMART participated in Pepsi's Refresh Challenge and running for the $250,000 prize.