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Striving Readers? Hire Librarians.

Digital Promise

As an ESL student and a child from an immigrant, economically disadvantaged family raised in blue-collar northern Ohio, I know first-hand the power a good book can have on a child who feels different and inferior from everyone around him. Students who are economically disadvantaged, black, Hispanic, and have IEPs (i.e.,

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

ED Surge

We got 400 applications the first year,” says Strachman, who had previously founded a project-based charter school called Innovations Academy. “We And studies show that the majority of the students who graduate from college end up economically much better off than those who don’t go to college. Millions of students in the U.S.

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