Every November, the Dallas Independent School District’s 10,000 eighth grade students spend a week mapping out potential career paths through the Open Choice Application. This process informs where they should spend the next four years: at a traditional high school, early college, p-tech, career institute, dual language school or elsewhere. All of this self-discovery happens on SchooLinks, a career and college counseling platform aimed at ensuring success for students of any ambition by empowering teens who may not be suited for four-year colleges—as well as those who intend to pursue university education. On Monday, SchooLinks announced it raised an $8.3 million Series A led by LiveOak Venture Partners...Read more