Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Blakely A. Rogers '88 spends her Friday morning classes cutting and pasting construction paper. She is not in a Visual and Environmental Studies class--Rogers works with children's art classes in the Longfellow elementary school, where she has also done math tutoring as part of Harvard's House and Neighborhood Development (HAND) program. She is only one of more than 100 Harvard students who volunteer in the Cambridge Public Schools...
Last year, Rogers worked on math with Deborah Kershner, a 13-year-old at the Longfellow School. "It was really funny because I'm not a math person at all," says Rogers, who concentrates in Fine Arts...
...smart, good and well-behaved; he just didn't go to school a lot," Jacobs says. She says she thought that his teacher had signed him up for the math tutoring without asking him if he wanted to participate...
None of these hurdles have deterred PBH Education Committee Co-Chairman Elena Patterson '88, who tutors at Rindge. In four years, the senior says she has tutored about 20 students in math and science...
Explaining her durable commitment to tutoring, Patterson says, "I love math and science, and I deplore the fact that others don't. That is mostly because it is poorly taught, and I can try to do something about...