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...remedial but creative, even difficult. Dick and Jane have been replaced by Antigone and Pericles. Middle-school math tutorials go on for hours and progress to higher algebra. SAT drills are constant, and college essays are rewritten many times. "Its a huge difference," says U.C. Irvine student tutor Sonia Velazquez. "Kids know when it's remedial and they're being talked down to, no matter how nice you put it." But to be in the outreach program means to be special, bright, even cool. When Willard held sign-ups for its math academy, a program that meant spending all Saturday...
...scheduled an appointment with Jim O'Connor, the founder of the Cuss Control Academy. Professor O'Connor is taking a break from teaching his two-hour, $45 classes to finish a book, which includes an entire chapter on the S word. However, he agreed to tutor me individually. O'Connor said I could use substitute words as a crutch, but advised employing a more positive, invective-free attitude. He suggested using shoot as a sort of cussing patch for the first few weeks. Finding shoot too embarrassing, I decided to go with two Civil War-era favorites, dandisprat and mutton...
Allston Burr Senior Tutor David B. Fithian complimented Kiely's dedication to what he called "the most distinctive of Harvard Houses...
...repeat a grade; last year close to 15% of third-, sixth- and eighth-graders were retained. The city spent $24 million last year on summer programs designed to give kids one last chance to pass the Iowa test before September. It invested $10 million in hiring new teachers to tutor retained students. If test scores are the measure, the stricter policy is working. Math and reading results in the elementary and high school grades are at their highest level in a decade...
Eliot House Resident Scholar Nicky Sheats, a long-time resident tutor who helped write last year's letter, said his informal discussions with black students living in Eliot House suggest this is the case, and he hopes the College will continue to evaluate the effects of randomization policy...