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Student Leaders Address College Persistence
April 16, 2012 by Brittany Baize
The Spectra Energy Alumni Fellows gathered on Saturday, March 31st for a training workshop on Adapting Your Leadership Style and Engaging Your Audience.
Fellows had an opportunity to pose with Spectra Energy's Chief Administrative Officer, Dorothy Ables, for a check presentation and to formally thank her for Spectra Energy's generous support. The Spectra Energy team also interviewed Fellows to document some of their success stories as they work to increase college persistence and graduation rates on their campus. These stories will be posted to The Answer soon!
Another highlight of the training was a leadership Q&A session led by keynote speaker Rich Kruger, President, ExxonMobil Production Company.
We are grateful for Spectra's generous support of this pilot program, and we
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YES Prep Alumna Featured in Podcast on College Persistence
April 16, 2012 by Tenesha Villanueva
Throughout this current school year, YES Prep Public Schools will be hosting Emily Hanford, an education reporter from American RadioWorks. American RadioWorks produces radio and web documentaries, feature stories for public radio programs (most often Marketplace on NPR) and newspaper and magazine articles for various publications. Emily is currently working on a year-long project about college readiness and persistence and in particular, digging into the question of what college readiness means and what it takes to prepare students, especially students from low-income families whose parents are not college graduates. Given this is her focus and our intimate work in this area, she requested to focus her story heavily on YES Prep and dive deep into these
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Wendy Kopp at Senior Signing Day!
April 13, 2012 by Brittany Baize
We are thrilled to announce that Wendy Kopp, chief executive officer and founder of Teach For America, will be our keynote speaker at YES Prep's Senior Signing Day 2012!
Senior Signing Day is an annual YES Prep tradition. For the twelfth year in a row, our graduating seniors will announce publicly the college they have chosen to attend in front of families, supporters, and the entire YES Prep student body. The ceremony is also an opportunity for younger YES Prep students to see the rewards their peers have earned through hard work, self-discipline, and a “Whatever It Takes” attitude. Over 90% of these students will be the first in their families to attend college, and currently over 75% of our graduates return to live and work in Houston after earning their degree. Join us as we
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Making an IMPACT
April 05, 2012 by Brittany Baize
Given our commitment to supporting our students to and through college, YES Prep actively seeks out partnership opportunities with selective colleges and universities from all across the country. Through these collaborations, YES Prep works closely and strategically with our partner institutions to increase our students’ access to selective colleges and universities, provide support for our alumni during their college years, while at the same time ensuring that college remains affordable for our students and families.
Much like our IMPACT program, Daniel reminds us that Top Colleges Can Transform Education when they "do more to embrace students from low-income communities; but unfortunately, as Andrew Delbanco wrote recently in The New York Times, the nation's top 150 colleges -
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YES Prep Brays Oaks student is national essay contest winner
March 21, 2012 by Brittany Baize
Lauren Griffith, YES Prep Brays Oaks, class of 2016 placed first in the 5th-8th grade division of the 5th annual Teach for America – Phi Sigma Pi Essay Contest. The essay responded to the question, “Why is Education Important to Me?” Lauren will receive a $500 savings bond, and her work will be showcased at the national Phi Sigma Pi Convention.
Below is an excerpt of Lauren’s award-winning essay:
In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream.” That our future will be as bright in the future as it was in the past. That one day we young people will wake up and realize that if we don’t fix our lifestyle now, we won’t have all of the wonderful things that our providers gave to us. I have a dream that when we decide to have children, we will instill brilliance not
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