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...learn about its real-world consequences, students hoping to make progress directly on issues should consider the ways that they can use their knowledge to work for permanent change. Otherwise, service groups will be in danger of producing well-intentioned advocates working in a system without the tools to shape it, and political groups will be in danger of churning out aspiring policymakers who have never met a homeless person...
...puts you on the fast track to poverty. If you're unlucky, your employer runs out of money to pay you. If you're really unlucky, you get caught in the middle of an extortion racket. But if it all works out-as it increasingly does-you get to shape your own future in a way French kids would envy. First of all, there's plenty of work. Youth unemployment is about 23% in France, and almost 1 in 10 school leavers does not have a permanent job five years after taking the baccalaureate. In Yekaterinburg, being out of work...
...educators really be faulted for the calculation, however cold, that certain kids are an unwise investment of their limited energies and resources? That question quickly leads to the much thornier issues of class and clout that shape the dropout crisis. The national statistics on the topic are blunt: according to the National Center for Education Statistics, kids from the lowest income quarter are more than six times as likely to drop out of high school as kids from the highest. And in Shelbyville, nearly every dropout I met voiced a similar complaint: teachers and principals treat the "rich kids" better...
...continues to increase. The next milestone, and one that will take more than just Harvard’s endowment, is to inform students about HFAI and the potential of attending college at the grassroots level. The face of higher education is changing and programs like HFAI will surely help shape its future...
...great chance to learn a lot,” Reid said of the stacked opening weekend. “It is a bit scary—we’re very cognizant that this is a year-long process. If we come out of this weekend in good shape or in not good shape, either way we can’t afford to rest on our laurels...