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...performance. Howard and other educators say it's important to expose kids to a world beyond homework and tests, through volunteer work, sports, hobbies and other extracurricular activities. "The crux of the issue is that many students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions," says Michael Nakkula, a Harvard education professor who runs a Boston-area mentoring program called Project IF (Inventing the Future), which works to get low-income underachievers in touch with their aspirations. The key to getting kids to aim higher at school is to disabuse them of the notion that classwork is irrelevant...
...weeks, the center will host Project "Inventing the Future" (Project IF), run by Michael J. Nakkula, a lecturer on education, and Karen C. Foster '74, project manager, both at the Graduate School of Education...
...speech at the opening ceremony for the community center, Nakkula said Project IF emphasizes the potential of young students...
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