Tag: Step UP

  • 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.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Science for the young set

    Harvard hosts students from two Boston schools for some grounding in the importance and attraction of basic science.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Helping outside the classroom

    HASI organizes spring series of Family Events tutorial sessions.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    SmartTALK Family Night

    Harvard-assisted SmartTALK evening at Dorchester school helps students to develop homework skills, with family participation.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    4 minutes