Thursday, April 24, 2014

Op-Ed: Mentoring Students, and Closing the STEM Gap, Without Leaving the Office

U.S. News, April 22, 2014 (by Charlene Lake, Senior VP Public Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer for AT&T)

"About one in five students does not graduate from high school with their class, according to data from the National Center for Education, and of those that do, many are not fully prepared to succeed in college and careers.

But mentoring by a caring adult can make a tremendous difference. At-risk young adults who have a mentor are more likely to go to college than those who don’t. Unfortunately, 16 million people will reach the age of 19 without ever having had a mentor, according to a new report by MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership." Read more

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