DASH Stories
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Story Pathways to prosperity: Meeting the challenge… : DASH Story 2013-02-01I am investigating the "value" of college in order to advise my niece on post-secondary options. Thank you very much for posting this entire article for public use. I found it through a search on GALILEO, the Georgia Library Learning Online.Story Pathways to prosperity: Meeting the challenge… : DASH Story 2014-04-25I will use the information and policy ideas here to support After School Matters, a Chicago not-for-profit providing high quality after school educational opportunities to at-risk teens throughout the city's neighborhoods. These opportunities include exposure and training in visual and performing arts, sciences, and employment readiness training.Story Pathways to prosperity: Meeting the challenge… : DASH Story 2014-08-06I provide administrative support to research faculty within a research center. I am frequently asked to pull in-text references from proposal narratives or drafts of research results prior to being published and then prepare a reference list. As I scour the internet for accurate details to place in citations, it's critical to be able to access materials. I also gather research materials for research faculty and graduate assistants, depending upon topics they prepare to investigate. I genuinely value the ease with which I can look at materials on your site.Story Pathways to prosperity: Meeting the challenge… : DASH Story 2014-08-21Thank you for access to this article. Our College Dreams organization has a contract with our Local Workforce Investment Board to provide career related learning services for youth, and this will be exceptionally helpful information for us to develop an evidence-based template for our work. It is possible that one of our Dreamers may attend Harvard at some point in the future. We have lots of very bright, high achieving students who are from low income families, Hispanic, and/or at risk of academic achievement gaps. We are tracking access to elite colleges through Questbridge.Story Pathways to prosperity: Meeting the challenge… : DASH Story 2014-11-11I teach developmental reading and writing at City College of San Francisco, and my students use Pathways to Prosperity to write an essay arguing in favor or against including vocational education in the high school curriculum. Open access to this document keeps costs down for students for whom this topic is very relevant.Story Pathways to prosperity: Meeting the challenge… : DASH Story 2014-11-14I've been in Employment and Training for many years, and very much interested in youth development especially in the urban areas where I work. You see youth attrition on a daily basis and the need is there for further education and jobs.Story Pathways to prosperity: Meeting the challenge… : DASH Story 2015-01-20We are researching how to help youth at risk in Camden, NJ and this report is both instructive and inspiring.Story Pathways to prosperity: Meeting the challenge… : DASH Story 2015-01-22I am writing a chapter on learning colleges for a handbook to be published this year. My first work to be published as part of a major project. Thanks for the access and to the authors of this work for their publication.Story Pathways to prosperity: Meeting the challenge… : DASH Story 2015-04-03I'm currently writing a grant proposal in support of changing attitudes in Alaska about college-only definitions of success in public schools. Alaska Native students in particular have been impacted by the attitudes about college attendance and success. Although Alaska Native values are often in diametric opposition of the goals of college training processes and even the financially motivated conceptions of success, Alaskan schools still maintain this narrow concept of success. This article is helping me support our position. I appreciate the access to quality research. Thank you.Story Pathways to prosperity: Meeting the challenge… : DASH Story 2015-04-26I am a junior in high school, and the open access of this article has assisted me in writing a research paper about college admissions.