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Nidya Baez
In 2002, Nidya Baez and other socially conscious high school students from Oakland, California, created a vision for a new school dedicated to the empowerment of minority youth. Today, their vision is alive at the Youth Empowerment School (YES) where the focus is on authentic lessons and assessment. In 2006, all eleventh grade students at YES took AP Chemistry and AP History. Today, fully 84 percent of YES students are qualified to apply for a four year institution.
Baez graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 2007 with a degree in Latin American Studies. She serves as an English Language coach and substitute teacher at her alma mater, Fremont High School in Oakland. She is preparing to receive her teaching credential and will be teaching Spanish at YES, the school she helped design.
Laurene Powell Jobs
Laurene Powell Jobs is Founder and President of the Board of College Track, an after-school program that prepares under resourced high school students for higher education. Through its three centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, College Track provides a comprehensive program of academic support, leadership training, community service and extra-curricular involvement. Founded in 1997, all of the program's graduates have completed their secondary education and gone on to college.
In addition to her work in education reform, Laurene has a strong focus on non-profit entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on women's human and economic rights. Her board affiliations include Global Fund for Women, NewSchools Venture Fund, Stand for Children and Stanford Schools Corporation. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Russell Rumberger
A faculty member at U.C. Santa Barbara since 1987, Russell Rumberger, has published widely in several areas of education: education and work; the schooling of disadvantaged students, particularly school dropouts and linguistic minority students; school effectiveness; and education policy.
Rumberger has been conducting research on school dropouts for the past 25 years and has written over 27 research papers and essays on school dropouts. He also served as a member of the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute of Statistical Sciences/Education Statistics Services Institute Task Force on Graduation, Completion, and Dropout Indicators (2004) and as a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Increasing High School Students' Engagement and Motivation to Learn (2003).
As director of the California Dropout Research Project, Rumberger will synthesize existing research and undertake new research to inform policymakers and the larger public about the nature of, and potential solutions to, the dropout problem in California.
David Sibbet
For eight years, in the 1970's, David Sibbet was executive director and director of training for the Coro Foundation, a leadership development institute known for its pioneering work in experience-based education. He regularly designs and leads strategy, visioning, future forces, and large-scale system change processes for clients throughout the world. He is a former journalist at the Chicago Tribune and the author of several books.
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- high school
In the U.S., any three- to six-year secondary school serving students about 14–18 years of age. Four-year schools are by far the most common; their grade levels are designated freshman (9th grade), sophomore (10th), junior (11th), and senior (12th). Comprehensive high schools offer both general academic courses and specialized commercial, trade, and technical subjects. Most U.S. high schools are tuition-free, supported by state funds. Private high schools are usually classed as either parochial or preparatory schools.
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