Word: program
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According to Harrington, planning for the summer program is a fairly extensive process...
...dark comedy is getting "a fairly good reception" in its first week, says Seth C. Harrington '00, managing director of the program...
With a summer of performances ahead of them, Harrington said he's anticipating a successful summer for the program...
Still, U.C. Irvine's major programs directly affect only a handful--about 3,500--of Santa Ana's 50,000 students; 80% of students still test below the mean in reading and 70% below in math. "You've got to be strategic and pick your classrooms," U.C. Irvine English professor Julia Lupton laments. "There are a lot of kids not getting reached." It would be difficult enough to get them to qualify under affirmative action, when schools could dip into lower test rungs to get promising students. With the end of those programs, however, the kids must slug...
...will be a decade before the success of outreach programs can be evaluated. And in the interim, there will be the sad stories of children caught too late or missed just as the system changed. But there will also be stories like that of Raynaldo Ramos. The nine-year-old immigrated a few years ago from Mexico. No English was spoken in his troubled and poor home, and his limited language skills made for low grades. But last fall, six student tutors from the U.C. Irvine English program came to his fourth-grade classroom. The teacher, Marisol Duarte, saw only...