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Dropping out of school has serious personal, social and economic consequences for the individual, the family and society. Drop-outs face social stigma, reduced job opportunities and lower salaries. They are ill equipped to take on adult responsibilities and often end up becoming young parents, unemployed, on drugs and/or engaged in criminal activity. Drop-outs are costly

20 Questions is a new blog series where each month we will be interviewing Communities In Schools of Jacksonville staff members. This month’s guest is Bryan Jones, the Project Manager for our After-School program at Samuel A. Hull Elementary School. If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would do? You have

Adventure-based learning and expeditionary learning are fairly new educational models that provide students with opportunities to learn skills and abilities outside of the traditional classroom setting. When these types of diversified learning are incorporated into school curriculum, students are given chances to learn leadership and communication skills, develop positive relationships, learn the value of teamwork,