Young, educated, and upwardly mobile: What colleges are doing to help low-income students climb the economic ladder
HKS’s David Deming and his CLIMB initiative is using big data to look at how higher education can help advance the American Dream by helping people move out of poverty and into the middle class.
Leading by Example: Omar Yanar MPP 2010 is building a school that will take kids from hopelessness to college
El Paso Leadership Academy is a tuition-free public charter school for sixth-to-eighth graders in El Paso, Texas, that primarily serves low-income minority students. The school teaches leadership through a set of core values: collaboration, responsibility, smarts, humility, and hunger.
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