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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. A range of foundations and community-based organizations help meet the school’s ambitious goal of ensuring both high school graduation and college matriculation.

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

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Jewel says she wrote the song as a way of taking accountability for her life—knowing that, even though she didn’t have a good upbringing or a support system to guide her, she had to decide: “Was I willing to be accountable for saving myself, or did somebody else owe me that? Did a religion owe me that? Who did owe me that?”

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Local SEO: Four Tips for Ranking High in Your City

Andrea Kalli

Google’s ranking system is no longer location independent — location and searcher intentions do play a major part in rankings — and maintaining the number one spot is no longer a relatively easy effort. However, that is not to say that search , as a marketing form, is dead. Now, things are slightly different.

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

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But he made diversity in the workplace a strategic initiative , laid down goals and linked those goals to manager pay. Among the initiatives that emerged from the exercise was a group formed to “[identify] and [support] sales and marketing strategies” that could be utilized to reach women- and minority-owned businesses.

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Bioteams Part 4: The Team Organization Zone

BioTeams

In this article I will introduce a fourth overarching principle of bioteams: “Organisation: bioteams are sustainable self-organising systems” and the triad of three action rules which enable this self-organisation: Rule 10 – Autopoiesis. The Nervous System. Rule 9 – Genetic Algorithms. Rule 12 – Emerge!

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

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in his 2002 best-selling book, Authentic Happiness. When we’re content, our bodies secrete chemicals including oxytocin, dopamine and serotonin, which help modulate our immune systems, thereby enhancing our health, says Deepak Chopra, M.D., co-founder and chairman of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing. Happiness Roadblocks. Giving Thanks.

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