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

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In Homer’s ancient story The Odyssey , the goddess Athena, disguised as old man Mentor, reveals to the hero’s son the right path to take. Skip forward several millennia and across the Atlantic to an urban high school preparing teens for life after graduation, and the image of mentor-as-lone-sage doesn’t quite paint the picture.

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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. According to the UC Berkeley School of Information , women earned about 36% of computer and information science bachelor’s degrees in 1986.

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Product/Program Promotion Problems and Profits -- Launching Lessons Learned Expert Interview

Stephanie LH Calahan

I launched this while part of a mastermind program run by a well-known information marketer in the coaching profession; part of the program benefits was to have that guru promote our programs to his list (a huge benefit to have both the size of the list and his 'stamp of approval' on the program to his audience. Associates.

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