Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Breakthrough Collaborative

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The result was keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:32, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Breakthrough Collaborative

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Tagged for notability since 2010. Fails WP:NORG and WP:GNG. - UtherSRG (talk) 15:51, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations, Education, Hong Kong, and United States of America. UtherSRG (talk) 15:51, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

• Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
  1. Oldman, Mark; Hamadeh, Samer (2003). "Breakthrough Collaborative (formerly Summerbridge National)". The Best 109 Internships (9 ed.). New York: The Princeton Review. pp. 54–57. ISBN 0-375-76319-8. ISSN 1073-5801. Retrieved 2023-08-27 – via Internet Archive.

     The book notes: "The Breakthrough Collaborative is a two- to three-year "Workshop in Education" for "talented students with limited educational opportunities" in the fourth through eighth grades. Nationwide, approximately 2,000 students participate in the Breakthrough Collaborative's two- to three-year program of six-week summer sessions, school-year tutorials, and year-round counseling. Having older students teach courses that prepare middle-school students for high school is not the Breakthrough Collaborative's only innovation—the school is also tuition-free. From 1978 to 1990, the Breakthrough Collaborative program was run in conjunction with San Francisco University High School only. Its success in preparing often economically and academically disadvantaged middle school students for the rigors of college-prep high school programs was so widely acclaimed that thirty new programs were established in the early 1990s, at schools in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, and San Jose, CA; Denver, CO; New Haven, CT; Miami, FL; Atlanta, GA; Louisville, KY; New Orleans, LA; Cambridge and Concord, MA; Raleigh, NC; Manchester, NH; the Bronx and Locust Valley, NY; Cincinnati, OH; Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, PA; Providence, RI; Fort Worth, Austin, and Houston, TX; Norfolk, VA; and Hong Kong. The thirty-six schools hire nearly 850 teachers every summer, employing an equal number of high school and college students."

  2. Delgado Gaitan, Concha (2013). Creating a College Culture for Latino Students: Successful Programs, Practices, and Strategies. Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press. pp. 72–75. ISBN 978-1-4522-5770-9. Retrieved 2023-08-27 – via Internet Archive.

     The book notes: " Since 1978, the Breakthrough Collaborative (BC) is a national non-profit group that has changed the lives of more than 20,000 students in 33 locations across the country. Sixty-eight percent of the students qualify for free or reduced school lunch. The Collaborative accepts high-potential, low-income students who are the first in their family to attend college. Ninety-two percent of the BC students are students of color. Thirty-four percent speak English as a second language. And thirty-nine percent live in single-parent households. BC communicates with middle and high schools where BC students attend since they track students' academic performance and needs. The Collaborative has two main program groups-middle school students and the high school or college-aged teachers who instruct and mentor them. ... They attend two 6-week, academically intense summer sessions, year-round tutoring, and continuous college preparation and assistance."

  There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow the Breakthrough Collaborative to pass Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)#Primary criteria, which requires "significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject".

  Cunard (talk) 08:45, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 10:19, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
• Keep per Cunard. There is a fair amount of coverage on the subject, including from Atlanta, Florida, and New Mexico. Here is a WaPo article on the subject: https://www.proquest.com/docview/410189668/9B03E7FD37AB4E20PQ/18. Enough to qualify in my opinion. - Indefensible (talk) 16:43, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

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