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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

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Despite any obstacles students face, since its creation in 2002, the school has enjoyed impressive outcomes, boasting a college readiness score 27% higher than the city’s in 2019. It’s clear that students should be made aware of viable alternatives, such as vocational training, to traditional higher education.

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Never Broken: How Singer-Songwriter Jewel Became a Mental Health Advocate

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And the powerful questions she learned to ask, as well as the tools she developed because of them, would provide a framework for the advocacy and education she would do outside her music. Because, unless my behavior changed, it didn’t matter. Philosophy is dead unless we can figure out how to act on it.”

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Rockbridge Guitars’ Co-founder Makes Instruments for A-List Musicians—And Kids, Too

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Then, in 2002, it actually happened. “He Using music education for positive impact He likes that it gives kids an easy entry point to playing an instrument. He wants to open that same door for others, which is why the company is focusing on education in early music learning centers. You can rip it on one string,” Calhoun says.

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IDEAS Ltd to Sponsor Design Guild Mark 2024, call for entries

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Founded by Keith Lovelace in 2002, IDEAS is a leading authority in ergonomics and inclusive design for any commercial or public space including leisure, sports, hospitality, healthcare, and education.

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Economic Uncertainty Hits Millennials; Only 1/3rd Feel They are Middle Class

Small Business Labs

in 2002 to 34.8% But the quick summary is stagnant wages, increasing costs for housing, healthcare and education and the hollowing out of middle wage jobs.  This is part of a broader trend of fewer Americans in general seeing themselves as middle class. So it's not just millennials.

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More on the Growth of Small Farms and Local Food

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Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. " While small farms are not going to replace large farms anytime soon, the USDA is projecting that the market for locally grown food will be about $7 billion by 2012, up steeply from $4 billion in 2002.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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Not only did the PWD task force ensure compliance, they “established a worldwide accessibility project office” in 2002 to ensure all products and services were made accessible. And among the constituencies IBM tracked , the gay community ranked highest in education level, computer literacy and disposable income.

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