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		<title>It&#8217;s like she hit the lottery!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shahkila Daniels is excited about baton twirling, and so much more. The teachers at Canton McKinley High School and the other adults in her life are excited about Shahkila’s accomplishment in the quest for a prestigious national scholarship. One thousand high school students in the United States were selected this spring for a Gates Millennium Scholarship. Shahkila Daniels of Canton McKinley High is one of them, and one of only 14 from Ohio.]]></description>
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		<title>Jackson High School grad devotes summer to immigrant children</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Stark County high school students travel a relatively easy road to college. Ben Graeff, Jackson High School graduate, feels that he was one such student. His academic work and his abilities on the football field gained him admission to Harvard College, where he is earning a degree in economics while playing varsity football in the Ivy League. So what do you suppose that a student like Ben does with his good fortune? He has turned it into good fortune for others. Once again this summer, he is working with the Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program (CYEP) at Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Association. The association organizes and directs Harvard students who are interested in community service in Cambridge, Mass., which is home to Harvard and across the Charles River Basin from Boston.]]></description>
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		<title>Massillon student dreams of a hospital ER</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samantha Sims, a senior at Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio, will graduate from high school this spring with the ability to find work in the adult world and the ability to pursue higher career goals in a university program thanks to DREAM. Samantha is one of thousands of Stark County students who are preparing for college through a program that also prepares them for the world of work. ]]></description>
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		<title>A teacher comes to her rescue</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After successfully completing her junior year at Perry, a tragedy occurred in the life of Dominque Gates. Her mother died in spring 2003. All she had after her mother’s passing was her sister, then age 24 with two children. “I could have easily drifted off the other way,” Dominque said. But a teacher stepped up to offer her comfort and guidance. The teacher was Jan Zak, one of the founders of the medical tech prep program at Perry. The teacher offered comfort to the student at her mother’s funeral, and that led to a deeper commitment by Mrs. Zak to Dominque’s success in college and life.]]></description>
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		<title>The arts hope to make Stark’s future college students smarter</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In selected classes at Massillon’s Gorrell Elementary School, art projects, theater projects and dance classes supplement language and mathematics lessons. More than supplementing the academics, the arts are integrated into the academic classes so that there is always an academic purpose behind the arts activity. Among the group of students who worked regularly with artists in residence, standardized test scores rose dramatically. ]]></description>
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		<title>New Stark County initiative encourages education, celebrates success</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new local initiative, Building Stark By Degrees, encourages young people and their parents to make plans for a college education. Building Stark By Degrees celebrates the success stories of educational achievement in Stark County.]]></description>
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		<title>Education is a community commitment for Stark County, Ohio</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ward J. “Jack” Timken is a leader of the business and philanthropic community who helped to establish the Stark Education Partnership and who has nurtured the organization over the last 20 years. He is quick to point out that neither he, nor his brother, Ambassador W.R. Timken Jr., the former chairman of the Timken Co., worked alone. A coalition of charitable foundations — Timken, Deuble, Hoover and Stark Community — provided the initial $3 million investment in 1989 to form what was first known as The Education Enhancement Partnership.]]></description>
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		<title>Few places encourage kids to go to college like Stark County, Ohio, does</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The College Board, a national organization dedicated to helping young people advance to a college education, has recognized the Stark Education Partnership as one of three outstanding college success initiatives in the Midwest. ]]></description>
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		<title>Renowned Education Reformer speaks in Canton</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce and Stark Education Partnership welcomed renowned education reformer Dr. Willard Daggett to the 96th annual dinner, held Wednesday, Feb. 11 at the Canton Memorial Civic Center. Daggett inspires audiences to both embrace what is best about our education system and make the changes necessary to meet the needs of all students in the 21st Century. ]]></description>
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		<title>Malone University Senior Brittany Steigart Nominated for Statewide Art Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brittany Steigart, a Macedonia native and Malone University senior, was recently chosen from among her peers as a nominee for the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio (AICUO) Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts.]]></description>
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