Jun 28, 2017 | 50 Stories
What can happen in just an hour a week? Amanda Severin is frank about the challenges and benefits she has experienced as a Boston Partners academic mentor. In 2012, Amanda was matched with a bright student at the Josiah Quincy Elementary School who was physically...
Jun 13, 2017 | 50 Stories
“School Volunteers for Boston accomplished what no other organization in the city had yet to achieve: earning the trust of the administration and faculty of the Boston Pubic Schools. This meant that organizations who had felt they could offer a lot to...
Apr 11, 2017 | 50 Stories
Boston Partners in Education was an early adopter of the idea that community collaboration could become a vital educational resource to students, and our organization soon became BPS’ leading connector. One of our earliest and longest-standing partners in that idea is...
Mar 28, 2017 | 50 Stories
(Read Part One of The Library Program here.) It was during the second year of the program that Margaret Brown met Polly Kaufman at a parent volunteering conference. Kaufman joined the program and quickly ascended to a leadership role. Though she was a library...
Mar 20, 2017 | 50 Stories
In 1966, there were no libraries in Boston public elementary and junior high schools. This was due in part because in many schools, teachers could not receive funding for new books in their classrooms, let alone enough to fill a lending library. The school...
