From preschoolers to highschoolers, the month of May begins a celebration of accomplishments and the excitement for the next stage of life. For one young girl, an upcoming promotion marks a whole family’s embrace of a college-going culture.
Castle Park Elementary fifth grader, Frida Aldai, is...
| Read more >When assessing whether public initiatives and other communty interventions are having a measurable effect on social and economic indicators, tough-minded policy analysts often ask: “Are we moving the needle?”
As Minnesota legislators and Governor Mark Dayton negotiate in the final weeks of the...
| Read more >While Sherry Scott was growing up in rural eastern Kentucky, she didn’t know a single person who went to college, and thought she had zero chances of ever doing so herself. When she was 13 years-old, Scott’s family left the impoverished area for better opportunities.
Megan Ward of Berea...
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