Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while most of the undergraduates involved with CHANCE, Cambridge School Volunteers, Inc. and UTEP concentrate their efforts on academics, other Harvard students take a different tack in their interactions with Rindge and Latin...
Rindge and Latin senior Yao Feng, 18, is a recent immigrant from China who was tutored last year by Tim K. Marks '90 in pre-calculus as part of the Cambridge School Volunteers program. "He [Marks] helped me understand word problems. When you talk one-to-one, it's very helpful," says Yao Feng...
...like to give [high school students] a feel for what college is like," says Marks, who is in his second year as a volunteer for the program. "I would tell them what life is like at college...
More formal academic help for Rindge and Latin students comes from Harvard undergrads who serve as student teachers as part of the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program (UTEP), sponsored by Harvard's Graduate School of Education...
...opportunity for them to learn about things that normally wouldn't be taught in a high school curriculum," says Daniel A. Sachs '90, who directs the program. "It doesn't present Harvard students as total geeks only interested in facts...