March 22, 2001

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

After-school programs provide guiding hand
Statistics suggest kids are most in need of guidance during the hours after school. The Harvard After-School Initiative addresses this issue, signalling a new approach both to learning and to the more general problem of preparing children to succeed in life.

High schoolers meet the press
The mayor was vacillating. The police were posturing. The ACLU was pontificating. It was a press conference from the front lines of the urban American battlefield, acted out on the stage of the Littauer Penthouse at the Kennedy School by Dorchester high school students.

"Rapper Big X," played by Dorchester High's Edward Summerhill, is flanked by his "bodyguard" and "lawyer" at a mock press conference, held by Dorchester High School students at the KSG.

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