In a time when elite athletes are pushed away from high school sports in the name of athletic development, Rudolph is a true believer in high school sports for their own sake.
Despite learning disabilities and other challenges, he was accepted into a program that let him spend the year after his graduation from high school in a community development program in Senegal, Africa.
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The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors -- or DREAM -- Act, would create a path to citizenship for immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children under the age of 16 and have lived in the United States for at least five years, obtained a high school or General Education Development diploma, and demonstrated "good moral character, " the White House said.
Ms. DONNA TRUMBOWER (Childhood Development Teacher, Pennridge High School): He loved kids, and they loved him.
With the allure of college athletic scholarships, the focus in our youth and high school sports programs has increasingly been on the development of elite athletes vs. participation for all.
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Clark targets her hourly workers for training and career development, whether they're high school students, part-time teachers and nurses, or grandmothers.
We have also taken the lead in fighting for the resources students need to meet higher standards, high-quality professional development for teachers, and after-school and summer-school schemes to help children who may be falling behind.
The Forum awarded seven university and high school students a prize for essays they had written on promoting sustainable development of the oceans.
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions is contacted periodically by a variety of internal and external constituencies, such as high school counselors, alumni, faculty, and members of the athletics, development and government relations offices.
"Because of all the good work Bill did with Hawick High School we thought it would be good if the kids got involved in the development and planning of what they think the memorial should be, " he said.
It speaks to the power of high school sports that even though some are declaring them irrelevant in terms of athletic development and their necessity for a college scholarship, so many teenagers still want to be a part of a school team.
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So simply put, at Richards High, the whitest areas feeding the school have the greatest means and access for youth baseball development.
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Payton, Kiona, and their Northeast High School classmates received a 2012 InvenTeam grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program, which supported their development of the innovative design.
The responsibility for issuing high school equivalency certificates or diplomas rests with states, and they've relied on the General Education Development exam since soon after the test was created to help returning World War II veterans.
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