At a Chicago tutoring center, multilingual refugees given safe space to learn with help from college students

Ten-year-old Lana Azizieh, a fifth grader at Clinton Elementary School, said that before she came to the United States two years ago, she didn’t know English. “Now I’m really good at English,” she said, noting that she loves math, but not so much reading. “I like to read graphic novels, but mostly I’m not reading graphic novels (in school) so there are just words, words, words. I get tired of ...

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