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Matching kids with adults who live their dream – Spark Apprenticeships
November 8, 2010 /
Apprenticeships are "not rocket science".
Spark apprenticeships http://www.sparkprogram.org/ offer weekly, semester-long, one-on-one workplace experiences that bring economically disadvantaged teens into contact with a world they have probably only imagined.
Nationally, some 30 percent of US high school students drop out. In some states graduation rates are so dismal that high schools are known as "dropout factories," according to a report in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
By Paul Van Slambrouck
Full Story: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/1108/Matching-kids-with-adults-who-live-their-dream
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