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...news conference in December, Duncan cited his mother’s after-school tutoring program on the South Side of Chicago—in Obama and Duncan’s home neighborhood of Hyde Park—as inspiration, saying his experiences there had a large impact on his commitment to improving inner-city education, and his love for basketball...
...part of their soul-searching, the Girl Scouts found that girls were so bombarded with after-school sports, lessons and high-octane homework that neither they nor their parents found Girl Scouts compelling enough to keep on the calendar. "It was a brutal truth we had to confront," says Cathy Tisdale, the Girl Scouts national vice president for "mission to market." So they set out to become the "premiere leadership organization for girls." Troops and badges will still exist - but girls can also choose to take "journeys" instead, opting, for instance, to make a six-week foray into the community...
...past years, many shoppers' purchases were really gifts for themselves. Nicholas Luciano, 16, said he spent $400 that he had earned from an after-school job at McDonalds on six sweaters, three pairs of jeans and a pair of sneakers from American Eagle Outfitters. Although he bought one gift for his Mom, he still needs more. Now he has to find Christmas gifts for the rest of the family. Retailers can only hope that Luciano's Black Friday enthusiasm is contagious...
...huge, unmanageable, unwieldy project if you thought about it all at once,” Sprague said. “I take philanthropic activity even more personally because for every mistake you make, that’s someone you’re not getting medicine to or getting an after-school program...
...PBHA alumni discussed this kind of work in public service in a panel on Saturday afternoon. All the panelists described following unexpected paths that began at PBHA. Toby N. Romer ’94, for example, is now the headmaster of Brighton High School, where he worked as an after-school tutor his freshman year. Many panelists warned that they were wary of a Harvard degree when screening applicants. Romer said he worried about a lack of ability to connect theory and practice. “I look for people with an ability to function in imperfect situations...