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Written by Michelle Healy, USA TODAY
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Wednesday, 11 April 2012 |
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Article Source: USA Today
Haley Kilpatrick, 25, was ostracized and unhappy in middle school, but says things turned around when she found an older mentor.So she founded Girl Talk, a program that pairs middle-school girls with high schoolers. Today, it works with 40,000 girls in 44 states.
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Written by Patrik Jonsson - CS Monitor
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011 |
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Article Source: CS Monitor
As a teen Haley Kilpatrick felt the sting of school bullying herself. She started the youth program 'Girl Talk' to stand up to it.
Atlanta, GA: Once a week, the middle-schoolers at the private Atlanta Girls School go to a unique homeroom session where chatter trumps study.The get-together is Girl Talk, part of a nonprofit movement where teens besieged daily by the trappings of consumer culture, high-tech gossip gizmos, and "mean girl" mentalities talk to older girls about how to get beyond what seems to them to be a life-and-death drama buzzing around them.
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Written by Elizabeth Fuller - CS Monitor
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Wednesday, 29 December 2010 |
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Article Source: CS Monitor
Before the recession, women were starting twice as many firms as men. Now, they may do even better.
Ruth Marvin Webster and her tennis partner, Kathy Doherty, spent years making puns at their racquet club: "Love all," "Get a grip," "Tightly strung," "Yours!" They'd even joked about turning their witticisms into a T-shirt business. So after Ms. Webster was laid off in 2008 from her job as a features writer for a San Diego daily, the pair took the plunge and started Net Wit, a business so new that its website only went up in mid-November.
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Written by Christina Dickinson - Chris Vanderveen: 9 News Denver
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Monday, 29 November 2010 |
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Article Source: 9News Denver
ARVADA - Just the thought of it is enough to cause 15-year-old Kinsasha Zamora to laugh out loud.There she is, in the middle of the park, fully stumped. Most of her competitors have long ago finished. She knows she's lost. Do I go this way? What about that way? Where the heck am I supposed to go?
The sophomore at Arvada High School will tell you those questions have managed to enter her mind more than once over the course of her relatively brief cross-country running career. And yet, she's still laughing when she starts to tell you about the "horror" of it all.
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Written by Jeremy Meyer - The Denver Post
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Thursday, 21 October 2010 |
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Article Source: The Denver Post
In a major speech at the Office of Special Education Programs’ leadership conference Tuesday, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan gave a shout out to a Conifer High School student and her special friendship with a girl who happens to have Down syndrome.
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