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Carter's plan, which would raise the maximum income level at which families are eligible for federal tuition grants from $15,000 to $25,000, "would benefit a large number of Harvard students," Lyman said. These students would be eligible for grants of up to $1 600 a year. Lyman added that under the plan, more students would be eligible for subsidized loans, with interest paid by the government until the student graduates...
...community of San Domingo. During the summer, Ana Maria Garcia Blanco, along with the people of San Domingo, opened a school for the children of the community. She was implementing ideas, combining her Puerto Rican heritage and her work during the last two years as a member of the Student Board of Radcliffe's Education for Action (E4A). With many ages working together in small groups, the Puerto Rican students study the history of their neighborhood; the songs and poetry of their culture...
...past three summers Ana Maria has left Harvard and gone back home to teach in San Domingo. During the Spring semester Ana Maria continued her teaching in Cambridge helping with a student initiated study-for-action group on education. Sitting in the Education for Action office in the Radcliffe Gym, Ana, along with eight other undergraduates, examined the problems and possibilities of education in diverse environments: Appalachia, the inner-city Puerto Rico...
With the help of Education for Action, a student organization which funds H-R undergraduates to do social change and cultural action projects, Ana has been able to continue her chosen work. In spite of limited resources the struggle for a unique classroom in San Domingo has succeeded...
...third-grader like myself it didn't matter that the weather was far too cold for early fall, and that the heavy drizzle had all but soaked through the neat white shirt and grey pants of my parochial-school uniform. Nothing much mattered except that every student of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs School was dutifully lined along Queens Boulevard in New York to cheer Pope Paul VI on his triumphal tour of the city, and that in that brief instant before the bullet-proof Lincoln whizzed him past us to Manhattan, he had waved to us. The moment captured...