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...school-district employees; they work for a nonprofit organization called Good Shepherd Services. Every New York transfer school and YABC is paired with a community-based organization that focuses on the social, emotional and family issues that tend to weigh down these students. "We don't have the expertise for these complex challenges," explains schools chancellor Joel Klein, who heads the New York City Department of Education. The academic staff is also enthusiastic about the partnership. "Teachers can focus on the best way to educate students," says South Brooklyn's principal, Vanda Belusic-Vollor. "That's huge...
...September 2, 2006: Shepherdstown, West Virginia Douglas W. Pennington, 49, kills himself and his two sons, Logan P. Pennington, 26, and Benjamin M. Pennington, 24, during a visit to the campus of Shepherd University...
...Despite Fujian's relative wealth, many talented youth still don't stick around. Instead, they entrust their lives - and their life savings - to the snakeheads who will shepherd them to new beginnings in the U.S., Japan and, now most of all, Europe. Around 20 people from Little Lin's own hamlet of 300 have left for Europe in the past decade, each one stopping in front of the village's holy banyan tree to ask for protection during the journey...
...campus environment was less revolutionary when Bok took the reigns again in July, he still had plenty of cleaning up to do to smooth relations with groups of professors, alumni, and students who were disaffected after the forced removal of a president. In Bok, the University found a shepherd to guide a prolonged curricular review, oversee a major campus expansion into Allston, and launch dean searches for three of Harvard’s faculties.As his encore at Harvard’s helm—and with it, his career—comes to a close, Bok said yesterday his priorities...
...brave again and speak out against the penalties in the Nigerian bill. If he truly has concerns about human rights, he should express them with vigor. Failure to do so ought to prompt his new Virginian congregants to give a second thought to their choice of Akinola as their shepherd...