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...department sponsors after-school programs at the Baker House in Dorchester run by the Rev. Eugene Rivers. In one program, at-risk teenagers learn critically important computer skills alongside lessons in black history and culture. Another program provides high school students with the opportunity to be both taught and mentored by Harvard undergraduates and faculty...
...newly created Faculty committee is currently accepting nominations for a new fellowship that will bring scholars to campus who are at-risk of being persecuted in their native countries for their beliefs or scholarship...
...classrooms. The average teacher's personal contribution is a surprising $521 annually, 35% more than what the school provides them with to buy such things as paperbacks, software, instructional posters and art supplies. Teachers, with an average salary of $42,000, say what they need most is materials for at-risk students, like books for a fifth-grader who reads at a first-grade level or posters for students who aren't proficient in English. Those who spend the most, first-year teachers ($701 a year), are also the lowest paid: the newcomers are building a collection of supplies they...
Such expenses are justified, the Harvard report says, because without improvements the quality of drinking water will suffer. The decrease in water quality could affect public health, especially at-risk groups such as the elderly and pregnant women...
...applaud city’s efforts to reach at-risk individuals in the Square and to include the Pit within the umbrella of many existing social service programs. It is only through more attention to the Pit, rather than attempts to close it down, that tragedies such as Nachtwey’s death can be avoided in the future...