Title
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News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
15 July 2018
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Calling New Orleans' post-Katrina school reform "the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America," journalist David Leonhardt outlines what he sees as the two main pillars holding up New Orleans' success -- au...
18 January 2017
New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
CUNY has launched 6x as many students into the middle class as all the Ivy League schools combined. Dozens of colleges are vaulting thousands of low-income students into the middle class and beyond, allowing children ...
16 September 2014
Palo Alto, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Attending college is not always a given option for gifted teenagers from less-than-wealthy backgrounds. National organization QuestBridge creates a way for low-income and minority high-achieving students to go to thei...
10 June 2014
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Delaware has been working to make sure that all college-ready graduates, regardless of socioeconomic status, make it to college. With financial reasons standing in the way of many qualified students, the state has wor...
29 March 2013
Virginia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Many poor students do not attend selective colleges not because they don't want to, but because they did not understand that they could. Basic information can substantially increase the number of low-income students w...
3 November 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Dr. Brent James, chief quality officer at Intermountain Healthcare, came up with a system for regulating and improving healthcare in the Intermountain medical region and at other hospitals nationwide. He teaches a pro...
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