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Brighter Choice Charter School for Boys: The Challenge Continues… Why We Exist. Pre-Service Professional Development August 2012. College: Gateway to Options. College = Economic Opportunity. 84% more over lifetime than with only a high school diploma.
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Brighter Choice Charter School for Boys: The Challenge Continues… Why We Exist Pre-Service Professional Development August 2012
College = Economic Opportunity 84% more over lifetime than with only a high school diploma Source: “The College Payoff,” The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
Not Just Economic Opportunity…Life Expectancy • "The most highly educated white men live about 14 years longer than the least educated black men…It's as if Americans with the least education are living in a time warp. The least educated black men are living in 1954…” S. Jay Olshansky, professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, lead researcher of article in Health Affairs, August 2012 • People with a bachelor’s degree live about 9 years longer than those who don’t graduate from high school. (USA Today, 5/12/12, article about release of Center for Disease Control study)
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