iMentor Builds Digital and Personal Bonds Between Students and Role Models | MetroFocus
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Channel: THIRTEEN · 2014 · News & Politics
This edition of MetroFocus examines the success of mentoring in the public schools starting with a visit to the not yet two year-old Academy for Software Engineering near Union Square. Reporter Rick Karr shows us how the new public high school is incorporating the iMentor program into the curriculum. It's a new approach to mentoring that combines face-to-face interaction with weekly emails and four-year long relationships with students. In a follow up interview, iMentor CEO Mike O'Brien tells MetroFocus host Rafael Pi Roman, "We're trying to partner with the schools that have the biggest college challenge, serving majority first-generation college students from low-income communities, and prove that those students can get into college and complete college at the same rates as their peers all across the country." Read more on the MetroFocus website: http://bit.ly/1detmxq
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