Nelly’s Path to Academic Success

School Volunteer Program volunteer Karleigh Rose Pettit shares her experience as a volunteer academic mentor in the Boston Public Schools. In a previous blog entry, a Boston Partners in Education volunteer mentioned that Tuesdays are the best day of her week. Me? I...

Confidence = Success: A Math Rules! Story

Since 2005, Boston Partners in Education has run Math Rules!, a program targeting third through fifth grade students who are struggling in math. Small groups of students are matched with an academic mentor who works with them in the classroom while math is being...