Word: outreaching
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...think its going to increase exponentially from this point on," said Kelleher, who noted that the Bradley campaign is expanding its outreach efforts after having focused its efforts on Boston colleges over the past several weeks. "A lot of people who organize this now are in touch with people who are politically active on their [other] campuses...
Yale College Council President Jamie Ponsoldt said the outreach efforts at his school have made a difference...
...Connerly? It may be partly out of principle. George W., the self-described compassionate conservative, has staked out a moderate position on race not far from his father's New England Republicanism. He has come out for "affirmative access," a deliberately vague term that seems to include race-based outreach to minorities, something Connerly's initiatives prohibit...
...down system, with only the very best, across the board, getting into a U.C. campus. "We're talking about pushing kids to a 1200 SAT and 3.7. That's maybe three B's allowed," says Juan Lara, director of Irvine's Center for Educational Partnerships, which runs the outreach program. "209 has set up Harvard or Stanford admission standards for a public university...
...will be a decade before the success of outreach programs can be evaluated. And in the interim, there will be the sad stories of children caught too late or missed just as the system changed. But there will also be stories like that of Raynaldo Ramos. The nine-year-old immigrated a few years ago from Mexico. No English was spoken in his troubled and poor home, and his limited language skills made for low grades. But last fall, six student tutors from the U.C. Irvine English program came to his fourth-grade classroom. The teacher, Marisol Duarte, saw only...