Word: person
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also recommended explaining to children that cultural messages in the media reflect only the values of the people who wrote the material and do not reflect reality. He did not advocate censoring or condemning sexist material but said that the bias should be explained as one person's interpretation...
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...
...Rogers says, "so bright she wouldn't concentrate." Rogers says she spent weeks trying to establish trust and communication with the eighth-grader. "The hardest thing for me is dealing with someone very different than I am," Rogers says. "You have to know exactly how to work with each person...
...time I put into training the tutors is given back to the students 10 times over," says another Rindge bilingual and special education teacher, Barbara Clemons, who has had tutors from Harvard in past years. "I am only one person and without volunteers the students would not get the same amount of attention," she says...
...great for [tutees] to see a big person who is happy and has time to devote to them. Its nice for us to have a little person who doesn't want to talk about existentialism," Schwalbe explains. "A lot of us come to Harvard because we like school and learning and we like to share that with people...