The wariness between Germantown and King has existed for four decades after a hopeful but failed experiment as paired schools.
Coordinated by Pencil, a 14-year-old nonprofit group that works to pair schools with business leaders, Wednesday's event was the culmination of years of discussion between the United Parcel Service and Automotive, which relies on corporate partnerships to survive, said Melissa Silberman, the school's principal.
Potential schools for recruitment were then identified using a strategy of pairing schools with a similar school decile rating (an indicator of socio-economic status of a school's catchment area), and differing neighborhood walkability and neighborhood access scores.
An independent statistician performed school-level randomisation within pairs of schools matched for deprivation (percentage children receiving free school meals) and school size (number of children in years 5 and 6).
At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, a summertime program called Sfmoma pairs high school students with museum employees.
The reading was hosted by a nonprofit group that pairs high school girls from disadvantaged backgrounds who want to be writers with women who are authors, journalists, playwrights, poets and editors.
Brooke, who like Kelsea is a sophomore at Newtown High, said she had worked with one of the girls who was killed when she was in a child development class that pairs high school students with pre-schoolers.
Demi Lovato followed by naming participants in the magazine's mentoring program, a joint venture with Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Los Angeles, which pairs high school girls with mentors and awards them $10,000 college scholarships.
In another UTMB effort, the Bench Tutorials program pairs high school students with a university graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or faculty mentor for supervised instruction and research in field study on the molecular biology of asthma.
We pre-tested questionnaires in two schools (one pair) leaving us with 11 pairs of schools.
