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June 2008 Articles

Getting Off the Conveyor Belt

By Shawn Cohen and Joseph Moss

Traditional schooling hurts kids. This realization caused a New York State Teacher of the Year to leave the public school system after serving for nearly three decades.

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Turning Heads

by Linnea Caswell

You may have heard the proverb, “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.” For Cody Robbins, a 16-year-old CollegePlus! student from Virginia, this truth became reality when he was offered an internship at The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research at the age of 14.

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Executive Order #1

by Shawn Cohen

“Once a person has a job, their degree doesn’t matter much—it’s how they perform that counts.” So says Alan Patty, a former sales director at Oracle Corporation and a former vice president of an internet software division at Sun Microsystems.

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