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Partnership for Learning is a national award winning non-profit that provides a roadmap to each student’s success from cradle through college. Visit
www.partnershipforlearning.org for more information.
Your Child is a coalition of Michigan-based education and family organizations dedicated to studying the factors and barriers that may prevent parents and educators from fulfilling their responsibilities to a child’s education. Find out more by visiting www.yourchildmichigan.org
The Skillman Foundation is a private philanthropy committed to helping children in metropolitan Detroit by improving homes, schools and neighborhoods. Skillman doesn’t raise money, but uses its resources to help support other nonprofit organizations. Find out what you can do by visiting http://www.skillman.org/goodschools.asp
Looking for information on careers requiring education and training beyond high school, but not necessarily a four-year degree? Check out www.clickoncareers.com, a Website headed by the Detroit Regional Chamber in order to connect the most progressive companies and training providers with the most qualified career-minded professionals.
The Southeast Michigan Community Alliance (SEMCA) uses a real time labor market tool from EmployOn. Each month, EmployOn spiders over 170,000 employment related and business Websites. Currently, this tool spiders Websites for business and job boards in a 50-mile radius in the Detroit Region. SEMCA regularly finds a large number of job openings in the region. For more information visit: www.semca.org
Think your child’s performance in high school is more important than grade school? Think again. After all, what a child learns in elementary school provides a foundation for future academic learning. Without mastering multiplication tables, for instance, your child won’t be prepared for taking advanced calculus. That’s why parents need to ensure their children have every advantage for early education success. Read more in the
Metro Parent article “Jumpstart for Success” at
www.metroparent.com/jumpstart
Imagine if there were more EduGuides in the world. Imagine if we all worked together to help each student reach their full potential. That’s what EduGuide about. They're a growing network of parents, teens and educators working together from cradle through college to give each and every student a personalized roadmap to success. At its hub is a small non-profit team of regular people and real experts passionate about their cause.
http://www.eduguide.org
Jobs Tour is an interactive application that allows you to explore some of the more common jobs in our regulated utility businesses. Learn about the skills required, the daily routine and job challenges, and the selection steps for jobs like Customer Care Representative, Overhead Lineman, Power Plant Operator and more.
http://dteenergy.com/careers/jobsTour.html
