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T
o help raise public awareness about the importance of business involvement in education, the Partnership developed a series of success stories relating how teachers, parents, business leaders, and principals are working to make education reform a reality.
Central High/SuperAmerica Partnership Brings Real-Life Skills Training to Students
Jefferson County's Central High School needed more opportunities for students to develop entrepreneurial skills; it also needed a school store to provide supplies and sundries to students and staff members. Find out what happened when SuperAmerica Senior Resource Manager Bob Voll agreed to locate a SuperAmerica store in the school to be operated entirely by students, an ambitious partnership designed to offer real-life skills training to students in a setting that is as "real life" as it gets.
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The Wizard Within: One Teacher's Search for Solutions
This eloquent profile of grade school teacher turned principal, Linda Edin, describes her down-to-earth, real-life search for solutions to the classroom challenges posed by education reform in Kentucky. Her impression of KERA transitions from "like going through the first year of my teaching career every single day," to "(Reform) is what you make it. You coach (the students), set high goals, and you see the big picture."
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