Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Economics Head Tutor J. Bradford Delong on the low numbers of women concentrating in the department...
...possible answer to this question is that the students are at Phillips Brooks House (PBH). More than 1000 undergraduates work in local hospitals, tutor inner-city children, or contribute to other needed social services in the Boston area...
...universities salivated over his 22-points-a-game average. They paid little mind to his scant 2.0 grade-point average. It was Bob Battisti, coach of Northwestern Oklahoma State University, who persuaded Reggie to attend his school. What won him over, said Reggie, was Battisti's promise that a tutor would be available to help him through the difficult academic times ahead. "I knew I wasn't no A student," explains Reggie. For the Ford family, it was a shining moment. They are poor. Reggie's mother is disabled from a car accident, his father from a stroke. Reggie...
Initially, the coaches were attentive. Reggie remembers they joked with him and invited him into their homes. But each time Reggie asked about a tutor, he was put off. Then he injured his knee, and everything changed, he said. The coaches ignored him, and the invitations dried up. His grades dropped; the scholarship was withdrawn. "After I hurt my knee, it seemed like they were trying to tell me there wasn't much I could do for them, so I got up and left," says Reggie. Now 21, he lives with his family in South Carolina and is collecting unemployment...
...hour study hall after practice, but some are so exhausted they can barely keep their eyes open. UNLV's graduation rate is better than that of many schools, although only 40% of the team ever get degrees. "It's an unrealistic expectation," says Diana Costello, head academic tutor for the team. If subjected to the same grueling physical workouts, she adds, even "the finest of students would have a difficult time." Costello tries to warn the players to look beyond basketball and takes delight in those who make academic progress...