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Eli-mentary School

Published Monday, November 14, 2005

Students at Elihu Yale Elementary School, a public school in a tough Chicago neighborhood, lack the opportunities provided to students at Yale University. The name of the Chicago public school was little more than a coincidence until a determined band of Yale University alumni started volunteering at the school. Can these volunteers and school faculty help students to overcome the systemic and social obstacles they face?



On a windy Chicago day, Peter Dickinson '60 pauses outside the Elihu Yale Elementary School in the city's crime-ridden Englewood neighborhood. He's come...

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