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Whatever the reason, museum staffs are realizing that to attract families--and future art patrons--it's no longer enough to put a few reproductions in a corner and call it a family room. The appeal of a great collection is strong, but so is a program designed just for parents and kids...
ESPECIALLY FOR FAMILIES: The museum offers workshops, family days and a drop-in art program every Saturday and Sunday. "You can come in here not knowing anything, and we hope you'll want to come back," says Pam Donahue, manager of family programs. "If you know something, that's great too." www.dm-art.org...
...months of intensive night classes, they will be certified network technicians, the indispensable plumbers of the New Economy, capable of commanding a salary between $40,000 and $70,000 a year. Not a bad return on the $90,000 the city of San Jose has invested in the program--and a promising source of qualified workers for Internet giant Cisco, which provides the coursework and the hardware...
...similar Network Academies, operating in at-risk, inner-city high schools around the country will have graduated 25,000 technicians by the end of 2000. This is the first in a homeless shelter, but almost certainly not the last. "I've got a million calls," says Amy Estes, program manager at the shelter. "People are motivated by the money, but they also want to prove to the world they can do this...
That's what motivated Carlos Watson to found the highly successful college-prep program Achiever.com Watson's self-taught grandmother, the granddaughter of slaves in Jackson, Miss., graduated from college and was followed by her six siblings, seven children and 19 grandchildren. "There's a real belief in college in my family," Watson says. With the help of school districts around the country, he recruits at-risk students--most of whom hadn't thought of college--for an intensive online course that covers nailing the SATs, applications and scholarships. Result: 85% of Achiever.com students...