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...problems, from logistical (her science books crumble in the salt air) to physical (the school has no janitor, so she swabs floors, sweeps coral dust and empties trash bins in her classroom) to intellectual (though she's a science instructor, her students' difficulty with English means she also teaches ESL). "I really believe that because I must use both my body and my mind in this endeavor, I have probably kept myself in greater mental and physical health than might be true otherwise," she says...
Four years ago, Maureen R. Rodriguez’s ESL class at the John P. Holland elementary school in Dorchester did a project in which they wrote about their lives in the future. Almost every single student wrote that her or she had studied with Harvard students. “The program truly affects their future aspirations,” Rodriguez says. Phi Truong, age 17, came to Boston from Saigon in 1997. He credits the Summer Program for teaching him English. “My counselors made me speak English in class and write in a journal every week...
Initially put in an English as a Second Language (ESL) class at the sixth grade level, she made her public school honors program in just two years and was pursued by Exeter’s minority recruitment program. “When they said Exeter, I thought it was an English word I didn’t know,” she recalls. “So I went home and looked it up in the Spanish-English dictionary. I didn’t see anything, so I tried the English dictionary. I just had no idea...
...When I think about it, I think my mother is the reason why I was so persistent about my education,” says Hernandez. “None of my friends in the ESL program decided to go to college. For me, there was never a question as to whether I would go to college, although I never thought it would be Harvard...
Shan P. Patel ’03, also a Crimson editor, taught three Kaplan SAT classes to minority students in Lowell, Mass. for over a year. He has volunteered his time for a veritable host of educational activities, from teaching civics in a Boston high school to ESL refugee tutoring to coaching volleyball and tutoring in a Cambridge middle school...