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Discuss ““Leaders” earn praise, not funding”

A fledgling organization started only a year ago, mentoring organization Leaders in Learning is working to broaden its wings.

Leaders in Learning, a community service initiative, hires Carnegie Mellon students to tutor underprivileged grade-schoolers in the Hill District. The program is intended to foster mentorship, community pride, and literacy improvement. It aims to go beyond the students’ academic well-being and broaden their worlds while instilling in them the values and confidence needed to succeed.

Meant to fill a tutoring void created last year by the closing of a long-standing Hill District program, Leaders in Learning hired 20 students this year as mentors and tutors to work individually with children in grades three to five....

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