About More Than Words Inc. Massachusetts, United States
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More Than Words empowers youth who are in foster care, court-involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. MTW believes that when system-involved youth are challenged with authentic and increasing responsibilities in a business setting, and are given high expectations and a culture of support, they can and will address personal barriers to success, create concrete action plans for their lives, and become contributing members of society. More Than Words began as an online bookselling training program for youth in DCF custody in 2004 and opened its vibrant bookstore on Moody St in Waltham in 2005 and added its Starbucks coffee bar in 2008. MTW replicated its model in the South End of Boston in 2011, thereby doubling the number of youth served annually.
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Rise B. Axelrod is director of English composition and McSweeney Professor of Rhetoric and Teaching Excellence at the University of California, Riverside. She has previously been professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino; director of the College Expository Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder; and assistant director of the Third College Composition Program at the University of California, San Bernardino.Charles R. Cooper is an emeritus professor in the department of literature at the University of California, San Diego, where he served as coordinator of the Thurgood Marshall College Composition Program, Dimensions of Culture Program, and Campus Writing Programs. He has also been codirector of the San Diego Writing Project, one of the National Writing Project Centers. He is coeditor, with Lee Odell, of Evaluating Writing and Research on Composing: Points of Departure, and coauthor, with Susan Peck MacDonald, of Writing the World (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000). In the Literature Department, Cooper taught upper-division writing workshops in the writing major and graduate seminars in composition studies. He proposed the PhD degree option in composition studies and chaired eleven dissertation committees. Cooper taught high school English for nine years in Sacramento and in Concord, California. During summer 1967, he was Assistant Director, Reed College Peace Corps Project, and trained volunteers to teach English language in Iran. After earning his PhD at U.C Berkeley in 1969, he taught at U.C. Riverside (1969-71), State University of New York at Buffalo (1971-79), and UC San Diego (1979-1994). He was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in spring 1979. He has lectured widely (for example, Karlova, Norwich, Toronto, UCLA, Ohio State, Iowa, Pittsburgh, CUNY) and has been a visiting professor at the University of Iowa and the University of Stockholm. He advised the National Assessment of Educational Progress-Writing (1973-1981) and coordinated the development of California's first statewide writing assessment (1986-1991). For over fifty years, his primary interest has been the history, theory, practice, and assessment of school and college writing instruction, both in stand-alone courses and across the disciplines. His college textbook (coauthored with Rise Axelrod, ) for first-year writing courses has been widely adopted
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