Texas Scholars: Investing in the Future

Texas Scholars: Investing in the Future

The Texas Scholars Program, a joint business/education venture, is a low-cost program that motivates the "forgotten majority" (lower ranked students) to complete a rigorous academic curriculum preparing them for the labor market or postsecondary education. Since 1989, Eastman Chemical Comp...

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Veröffentlicht in:Phi Delta Kappan 1998-06, Vol.79 (10), p.781-783
Hauptverfasser: Johnson, William, Johnson, Annabel M., Randolph, Joe, Schmitz, Mary Alice
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Academic achievement
Business and education
Business structures
Curricula
Disadvantaged
Education Work Relationship
High School Graduates
High School Students
High schools
Industry and education
Middle schools
Minority Groups
Physical Education
Pilot Projects
Program Descriptions
Program Implementation
Scholarships
Scholarships (Financial aid)
School Business Relationship
School principals
Schools
Science Curriculum
Science teachers
Secondary Education
Secondary school curricula
Secondary school mathematics
Secondary school students
Standardized tests
State boards of education
Student aid
Student assistance programs
Student financial aid
Texas
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Zusammenfassung:The Texas Scholars Program, a joint business/education venture, is a low-cost program that motivates the "forgotten majority" (lower ranked students) to complete a rigorous academic curriculum preparing them for the labor market or postsecondary education. Since 1989, Eastman Chemical Company business leaders have been "recruiting" eighth graders. Participants take a 24-credit program requiring a "C" average. (MLH)
ISSN:0031-7217
1940-6487