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NSCS provides GED Tutoring programs at two different sites: McKim's Youth
Opportunity Center and the Community Mediation Center. The importance
of high school equivalency (e.g.: a GED diploma) is very important for
those trying to acquire higher paying jobs and/or attend college.
Located
near downtown Baltimore, the McKim's Youth Opportunity Center is an organization
that helps young individuals (ages 16-20), who are out of high shcool,
acquire jobs and attain high school equivalency via the GED exam. The
center is in need of tutors who can help in any one of the following five
test subjects: Writing, Reading, Comprehension, Mathemathics, Social Studies,
and Science. By sending tutors to the center three days a week, we hope
to increase the number of passing students and cultivate interest in higher
education. The Black Student Union also helps with the tutoring at Youth
Oppotunities by sending tutors once a week.
The
Community Mediation Center is located on 3333 Greenmount Avenue and is
a ten minute walk from the homewood campus. On Sunday afternoons at the
Mediation Center, NSCS volunteers tutor individuals to come in for help.
Most often, these students are adults from the surrounding community.
The demand for GED tutoring is high, especially around the Hopkins campus.
By tutoring once a week, NSCS hopes to provide a consistent service to
help those in the community pass the GED test |