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"Our original intention was that we wanted kids who had the ability to go to college but were not working to their potential," Richman says. "We think we are getting overqualified kids."
In fact, about half of the volunteers come from either Harvard or MIT, says Frank H. White '55, the organization's director. There are between 150 and 200 Harvard undergraduates involved, he says.
"I think it's extraordinary," White says. "Harvard and MIT undergraduates are ideal. They are at just the right age to work with high school students. The kind of student at Harvard and MIT has a good understanding of the learning process. There is no question in our minds that...
Harvard students are all-purpose volunteers in White's program. Most serve as personal tutors, but some work in the school's computerized writing center, library and in classrooms where they sometimes prepare "mini-courses" and give lectures, White says. One student, he says, taught guitarplaying to a small group...
Because of the tremendous diversity of languages spoken at Rindge and Latin, "two-thirds of the high school students we see are here because English is their second language. That need is increasing," White says.