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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...
...PBHA's 36 community service committees, CHANCE also provides a "big brother-big sister" program...
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...
Says Rodriguez, "Some of my friends who don't go to the program think that Harvard students are so up on their attitudes and don't want to deal with people who aren't close to them...
...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...