by Sarah Green | Oct 21, 2016 | News, Profiles
Many of us have strong feelings for the schools that gave us the skills to succeed in our chosen fields. This is certainly true for graduates of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Several of them have stepped in to serve on their postgrad alma...
by Sarah Green | Oct 14, 2016 | News, Profiles, Student Issues
Today, Kamaria Downs is 23 and an elementary school teacher in Greenville, South Carolina. She is also the mother of a nearly-two-year-old daughter, Ryann. And she’s making a footprint on education in her state, though not in the way one might expect. Two years ago,...
by Sarah Green | Sep 30, 2016 | Profiles
Emma Yang compares learning to program to finding a superpower or learning to use the Force. It was that powerful to her, right from the beginning. Born in Hong Kong to a STEM household (her father is in computer science, her mother is a mathematician), Yang learned...
by Sarah Green | Aug 15, 2014 | Profiles
Prep for Prep was established in 1978, and selects New York City’s most promising students of color and prepares them for placement into top independent schools. For the past thirty years, 150 low-income New York fifth-and-seventh grade children are selected from a...
by Sarah Green | Aug 5, 2014 | Profiles
In 2008, United Way launched its initiative to cut by half the number of students who drop out of high school through 2018. In order to achieve this, they focus on literacy and preparing students for success. United Way’s focus areas include helping children enter...
