Ensuring Access and Opportunities for All Students

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School Reform A Catalyst for Partnerships

• Ensuring Access and Opportunities for All Students

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When the world is flat... Whatever can be done,
it will be done. Thomas Friedman
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The future belongs to those who believe in the
beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
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There is one thing worse than not being able to
see. Being able to see, but having no vision.

• Helen Keller

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Vision without funding is just a hallucination.

• Henry Ford

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• Rigor
• Relevancy
• Relationships

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Dropouts cost our nation more than 260 billion
in lost wages, lost taxes, and lost productivity
over their lifetimes.

• Secretary of Education Spellings

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The education pipeline loses young people at many
points along the path.
For every 10 who start H.S.
Fewer than 7 will get a diploma in 4 years
4 will enroll in college the fall semester after
graduation
Fewer than 2 will complete a 2 or 4 year degree
within 150 of the required time.
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Breakthrough Schools Breaking Ranks II Breaking
Ranks in the Middle
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Support for At-Risk Students
Ensuring a range of options and programs for all
students.
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Guiding Principles for Business and School
Partnerships
A How-To Guide for School-Business Partnerships
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A How-To Guide for School/Business Partnerships

• Preliminary Planning
• Laying the Foundation
• Implementation
• Sustaining Partnership Over Time
• Evaluation

www.corpschoolpartners.org
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An Exploratory Study of the Relationship of
School-Business Partnerships and Developmental
Assets to School Success Among Urban High School
Students

• A Search Institute Report Submitted to the
  National Association of Partners in Education
  (NAPE)

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Risk Behavior Patterns by Partnership Exposure ()
Alcohol Use Drinking/Driving Discipline Problems
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Student Thriving Outcomes by Partnership Exposure
()
Exhibiting Leadership Maintaining Health Valuing
Diversity School Success
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Student Positive Outcomes by Partnership Exposure
()
Improved Reading Improved Writing Improved Math
Skills Improved Problem Solving
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Student DisciplineReferrals Suspensions
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Dropout Percentage Rate
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Honor Roll Percent of Students Enrolled
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The bend in the road is not the end of the
road,

• unless you fail to make the turn.