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...Cambridge School Volunteers, Inc., a nonprofit organization closely associated with the Cambridge public school system, also draws on Harvard students for its tutoring programs with Rindge and Latin...
...think it's extraordinary," White says. "Harvard and MIT undergraduates are ideal. They are at just the right age to work with high school students. The kind of student at Harvard and MIT has a good understanding of the learning process. There is no question in our minds that the quality of the students there is excellent...
Harvard students are all-purpose volunteers in White's program. Most serve as personal tutors, but some work in the school's computerized writing center, library and in classrooms where they sometimes prepare "mini-courses" and give lectures, White says. One student, he says, taught guitarplaying to a small group of students...
...Cambridge School Volunteers program, however, concentrates much of its work at Rindge and Latin on English-language training...
Because of the tremendous diversity of languages spoken at Rindge and Latin, "two-thirds of the high school students we see are here because English is their second language. That need is increasing," White says...