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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CHANCE sponsors weekly meals and teaching sessions every Monday night for approximately 50 Rindge and Latin students who want or need additional academic help. The program includes classes in SAT preparation, writing skills and creative learning, says Vice President Andrew S. Richman...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Town & Gown at the School Next Door | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

...CHANCE and others who tutor Rindge and Latin students face some tough statistics. About 60 percent of graduating seniors at Rindge go on to four-year colleges, but the school's average combined SAT scores were 47 points below the national average...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Town & Gown at the School Next Door | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

Still, Richman says that the informality of the CHANCE program--in contrast with the more formal setting in Rindge and Latin classrooms--is one way the program can help motivate students to improve their academic skills...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Town & Gown at the School Next Door | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

...CHANCE's officers have started to worry about the problem of exactly who they're helping at Rindge and Latin. They say the students they tutor are already academically motivated, and are looking to go to college. And that limits the program's reach, they...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Town & Gown at the School Next Door | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

Rene Meshon, a guidance counselor with Rindge and Latin's Student Service Center, oversees the school's selection of students whom it recommends to participate in CHANCE each year...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Town & Gown at the School Next Door | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

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