President Clinton is right. Work-study college students can assist in the increasingly vital task of teaching young Americans to read --an ability that goes untapped when these students must file papers or clean dorms to pay for their education.
The program Clinton has proposed, and that PBHA had wisely joined, is not volunteerism in the manner of most PBHA programs, in that students will be paid to tutor. But the staff must not mire itself in semantics when we have the opportunity to teach young Bostonians to read and thereby face a brighter future.
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