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Sep 7, 2008
"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own." --Ben Sweetland
Teens Tutor Teens
When Ann Connelly telephoned a tutoring company she read about in the newspaper, she was surprised to find herself talking to a teenage boy in his dorm room at NYU. Erik Kimel, 22, has spent the past five years building a tutoring service for families in suburban Washington while completing a college education in New York. Peer2Peer Tutors, the company he founded five years ago as a senior pairs mostly struggling students with older teens culled from the cream of Montgomery high schools.