History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Silicon Valley’s great divide
- 01-26-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
In Silicon Valley, where some of the world’s smartest people live, many of the best young minds are wasting. The dichotomy is as stark as the Route 101 divide – a geographical shorthand for class and race (east, poor; west, rich) – separating them. A youth unemployment rate that one workforce nonprofit executive estimates at 35 percent; A high school dropout rate of about 27 percent; A minuscule number of Hispanic students in a six-county area – 182 out of 13,700 – to pass the CSU Early Assessment Program in math. For seven hours last week, more than 100 school, business and non-profit leaders in the valley heard leaders’ pleas to reach out to disengaged youths, and discussed how to do so at a conference co-sponsored by Cisco Systems, the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, James Irvine Foundation and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. (more...)
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