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Tutoring

Nonprofit director starts tutoring program to fight poverty

Northwest Indiana native Jordan Hestermann strives to find solutions to poverty as director and founder of nonprofit organization Becoming We the People.

Tutoring program works to empower through education

HIGHLAND | The anti-poverty organization Becoming We the People offers tutoring from 3 to 7 p.m. Fridays at Kempo Jujitsu Martial Arts Academy, a collaborating organization. The tutoring is available to students in kindergarten through high school and covers all academic subjects.

Success in school: Learning disabilities can be helped with the right tools

With school back in session, parents hope their children will find a path to academic success. Learning disabilities, once considered road blocks to that success, can now be helped with the right tools, according to local educators.

Tutoring program offer by peers at IUN

GARY | African American Achievers Youth Corps Inc., a nonprofit organization of middle and high school African American males, is offering free tutoring for male students in grades 4 to 12 on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Indiana University Northwest, 3400 Broadway.

Making the grade: Sylvan Learning is filling in the gaps

In the ongoing dialogue between teacher and student that is the academic year, it stands to reason that not every conversation is going to go as smoothly as hoped. As math and literature and science lessons grow increasingly intense and more complicated, after all, not every last idea can be…

Food bank is hungry to help

This year the Food Bank of Northwest Indiana plans to start new programs to assist low-income families-including a child education program for children struggling academically and nutrition education for families.

Calumet High School students go Hi-Def

CALUMET TWP. | Learning doesn't end when the bell rings at 2 p.m. at Calumet High School, 15 minutes later Hi-Def begins. Hi-Def stands for Helping Individuals Design Extraordinary Futures, and is the name that Lake Ridge Community Schools has given to its 21st Century Community Learning Cen…