Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trasande '94, a joint student at the Kennedy School and Harvard Medical School, and resident tutor in Adams House, said he thought Apfel's talk "provided a framework for fruitful discussion" in terms of the School's Spring Exercise Program...
...attempt to convince me to stop, my aunt raised thousands of safety concerns, most of them completely unreasonable. Yet, I won't deny that some of her concerns had crossed my mind. Is there a physical barrier between the tutor and student? Will I be tutoring a murderer? Is it safe in the prison? What if the prisoner attempts to find me when he's released...
...down her fork. She demanded, "You volunteer where?" I won't ever forget my aunt's reaction to my decision to volunteer at the Suffolk Country House of Corrections. Through the Harvard Prisoner Education Program, approximately 35 students drive in a van to a medium security prison to tutor inmates. One Harvard student is paired with one inmate, a relationship which ideally lasts throughout the stay of the inmate. The curriculum ranges from basic math to advanced calculus, depending on the skill level of the tutee...
...inmates at Suffolk Country House of Corrections were convicted of crimes involving substance abuse. While some prisoners have committed violent crimes, they can only stay at Suffolk if their sentence is two years or under, which obviously excludes rapists and murderers. A row of classrooms, the setting for tutors in the prison, is very comfortable. There are no screens or bars between tutor and tutee; we sit at desks very similar to those in our lecture halls. Guards periodically roam the halls to check on the safety of the tutors...
...really committed to endingeducational inequality, you need to do more thanjust tutor," she says. "That's not to say youshouldn't tutor. [But] it's important that [some]people are making structural changes, though...