“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 8/12 /13:
“Bob Moses is 78, but he has the same probing eyes you see behind thick black glasses in photos from 50 years ago when he worked as a civil rights activist in Mississippi. The son of a janitor, Moses was born and raised in Harlem. He’s a Harvard-trained philosopher and a veteran teacher.
“He started a math training program — the Algebra Project — with a MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ 30 years ago. The goal is simple: Take students who score the worst on state math tests, double up on the subject for four years and get them ready to do college-level math by the end of high school.”
Click here to read the full story of his program that takes at risk kids and prepares them for college-level math classes.
Julie Miller of Vanity Fair calls Keep On Keepin’ On “the best movie you haven’t heard of this year.” The film follows 89-year-old jazz legend and trumpet master, Clark Terry, (Quincy Jones’s first teacher) over four years as he was losing his vision. It documents the unlikely mentorship between Terry and a driven, blind piano prodigy, Justin Kauflin, 23.
Miller notes, “Cliched adjectives like ‘uplifting’ and ‘inspirational’ apply to the film but don’t capture the gorgeous reciprocal mentorship that Terry and Kauflin share, which spans music competitions, Terry’s declining health, and a few hilarious cameos from Quincy Jones (and his ever-present bag of pork rinds) throughout.” Read more 
The cast members of the Reader’s Theater troupe from The Long Beach Senior Arts Colony share their love of the dramatic arts with anecdotes about their first off-site public performance. For many, to act on a stage in front of live audience, has been a life-long dream. For others, the experience has been life changing. Guest host Helene Weinberg, Arts Program Manager for EngAGE, talks with these emerging actors about finding their passion for this collaborative art form as “late bloomers” as they share their challenges and triumphs.
From Salon.com: “Wallace Shawn would no doubt prefer it if you knew him as a radical playwright, the American successor to Chekhov and Ibsen, rather than as the lovable character actor of 
