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...roommates were, like me, native New Yorkers. But the third, Ali, was a 5’10”, blonde-haired, blue-eyed varsity basketball player from a rural town in Western Pennsylvania with no stoplights...
...from the state of Utah served as dean from 1967-1972 and led minority recruitment to new heights. And L. Fred Jewett ’57 from Taunton, Mass. ushered in the current era, urging Harvard to reach out to all talented students, including those from the rural areas that produced Glimp and Peterson...
Jennings grew up in trailer parks in rural North Carolina. Neither of his parents had completed high school, and no one in his family had attended college...
...issue and a region—for instance, Education in Rural America...
Schools built by small, grass-roots NGOs operate on the inverse theory of change, striving to revolutionize the local status quo rather than affect national or global change. Usually rural instead of urban and almost always consistent with government standards, schools built by organizations like Achieve-in-Africa, BuildAfrica, Ripple Africa, and Schools-for-Africa are intensely local, both in terms of curriculum and culture. Such schools do not guarantee a college education; they simply equip girls to maximize their impact in their hometowns by holding jobs outside the home and ensuring the education of the next generation of girls...