Tag: Step UP
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Nation & World
HASI lends a hand
As the Boston Public Schools launched a new year of learning at back-to-school nights, the Harvard Achievement Support Initiative (HASI) helped by providing 11 local schools with 3,000 bags filled with homework enrichment materials.
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A window into college
More than 300 kindergarten and fourth-grade African-American boys visited Harvard for the launch of Impact 300, a multifaceted Boston Public Schools program aimed at closing the achievement gap and helping to prepare the boys for college. Harvard partnered with the Boston schools in the program.
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Extra help
Harvard is making sure that approximately 3,000 bags of homework support materials for grades K-5 will be distributed to family members attending Boston Public Schools’ Back-to-School Night sessions beginning in mid-September.
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Helping outside the classroom
HASI organizes spring series of Family Events tutorial sessions.
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Nation & World
SmartTALK Family Night
Harvard-assisted SmartTALK evening at Dorchester school helps students to develop homework skills, with family participation.
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Harvard students step up to the plate
Twice a week since March, a group of Harvard College students has been meeting at Johnston Gate every Monday and Thursday to take the Red Line train from Harvard Square to Fields Corner in Dorchester, and then walk to the John Marshall Elementary School where they are part of the Marshall After-School (MAS) pilot program.