Tags: James Sterling

Talk Story, Write Story
The path to college starts with just one caring person
June 21, 2016
While James Sterling was busy wasting away his life, he had an English teacher who thought he had some talent and might make something of himself as a writer. She suggested that his state university had a pretty good journalism school.
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Talk Story, Write Story demonstration project is a success story
June 21, 2016
Tad Bartimus used her RJI Fellowship this year to test her hunch that trained volunteers could successfully help financially challenged high school students write their way into college scholarships.
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Missouri high schoolers in Talk Story, Write Story offered more than $700,000 in scholarships
May 1, 2016
Talk Story, Write Story had never before used volunteer coaches to work one-on-one with students to win scholarships. The program began without name or direction 18 years ago in my 80 percent Native Hawaiian community of Hana, Hawaii.