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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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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

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It wasn’t just any form of the disease, but a rare form of blood cancer known as anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. As a high-school player, she caught the eye of the Tennessee State track and field coach, who recognized her tremendous ability and began training her as a runner. For Rudolph, the goal was everything.

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

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Jewel’s mental health organization: Inspiring Children Foundation In 2002, after many years of putting what she learned to action, Jewel co-founded the Inspiring Children Foundation , which provides mental health programming to youth whose financial circumstances are a barrier to access. Because, unless my behavior changed, it didn’t matter.

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Local SEO: Four Tips for Ranking High in Your City

Andrea Kalli

However, that is not to say that search , as a marketing form, is dead. Now that the goal is no longer the universal number one spot, businesses have near unlimited choice, and a much greater range of opportunity. The goal today is not to rank high for the entire world, but to rank high for your city.

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

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in his 2002 best-selling book, Authentic Happiness. So although you may not be able to change your baseline range, your goal should be “to try to reach the top of that range as often as possible,” offers Rubin. Consider this chain reaction: Optimists set more goals for themselves, believing, optimistically, that they can attain them.

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5 Tips For Incorporating Exercise Into Your Life

Brilliantly Better

I have been exercising in some form or another since I was five or six years old. And I ran the Chicago marathon back in 2002. Don’t go on a crash diet or train for a marathon right away. I couldn’t agree more. I played on countless sports teams growing up. Exercise has made an extremely positive impact on my life.

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