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Figuring that if he wanted work, he would have to hire himself, he and his wife Sandy, 33, started BabyRide.com selling baby strollers online. The answer for retiree Elaine Donahue Duncan, 58, of Houston, who had to return to the work force after her 401(k) dwindled, was to switch industries. After working three decades in the telephone business, she took her skills and migrated to the relentlessly booming health-care field, where she's now the purchasing manager for a hospital...
While the great migration from Rust Belt cities to such Sun Belt giants as Phoenix and Houston has been under way for years, what's new is that the hottest places in America to find jobs are small and midsize towns, and not all of them are in the warmer latitudes. Burgs ranging from Fargo, N.D., to Fayetteville, Ark., to Reno, Nev., are leading the U.S. in job gains. The Milken Institute, a private think tank, found in its annual ranking of cities with the most job growth that 11 of the top 20 had populations well under 1 million...
KIPP has shown that it is possible for public education to flourish—even in areas riddled with drugs and violence. Alumni have gone on to attend many illustrious secondary schools, including Deerfield, Hotchkiss and Choate. One graduate of KIPP-Houston is now studying at Stanford...
...known) also typically put in four hours on Saturdays. This may sound excessively rigorous, but every director or teacher I spoke with emphasized how enthusiastically the students respond. “The best compliment we’ve received in recent years,” KIPP-Houston school leader Elliott Witney tells me, “was when someone said we reminded them of a small college.” Witney’s students are the ones who will be visiting Cambridge this spring—as a reward for their dedication...
After growing up in Rochester, N.Y. and living in Houston, Texas for a while, Norman moved in with his uncle and aunt in Woodside, a suburb of San Jose. From there, he attended Bellarmine Prep and was on a track for success...