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...months of the year. On a hallway map of the world, the phrase we live in beautiful minnesota is written in Chinese next to their home state. During a recent lesson in American history, the classroom walls featured images of - and Chinese words for - Mount Rushmore, the White House and President Obama. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
Yinghua's student body, once 70% Asian, is now 50% white, black or Hispanic. The school has more than tripled its enrollment, to 300 kids, many of whom commute an hour each way. When parents Paul and Tess DeGeest moved back to Minneapolis from Washington, they wanted their daughter Audrey to progress beyond their own "lovely but Wonder-bread" upbringing. "Why would you not give your child an opportunity like this?" asks Paul. "It's another arrow in the quiver for her that most people will never have...
When I turned professional, it was like being a professional Frisbee player. To be recognized for something that was totally uncool when I was a kid is strange. I went to the White House. I was on The Simpsons. It's all so unbelievable...
...heartening to see the diversity of an institution still associated with old, white males increase, and the trend will likely continue as more well qualified minority and female professors are hired. However, it is notable that women and persons of color still hold disproportionately few of Harvard’s prestigious tenure-track appointments...
...states have been trying to get stimulus money and projects out the door as quickly as possible, often bundling smaller projects into larger ones set to begin work immediately (so-called shovel-ready projects) for more efficiency. Consequently, they have also tended to rely on larger and therefore predominantly white-owned construction contractors (who in turn also tend to use their preferred subcontractors) over smaller minority-owned firms that often don't have ample equipment or personnel. Those smaller companies also have trouble finding the resources to post construction bonds (money contractors must offer up front as a guarantee that...