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Thanks HighJive! “It is really about social mobility, whisking children out of their environment in urban neighborhoods and transporting them to institutions that are incubators for presidents, senators and titans of industry — like Phillips Academy in
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“Instead of pointing to property tax-based funding structures, unresponsive curricula, or the ill-conceived No Child Left Behind Act, Oprah reduces our nation’s own educational apartheid to music and footwear.”
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“I have located people who have affected the black community in interesting, complex, and largely problematic ways in 2006. Furthermore, each award is, appropriately, named after the trailblazing person whose public actions and identity inspired it.”
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“Over the course of the semester, racially charged photos, videos, and Facebook pages offended students at more than a dozen campuses across the country… campuses remain segregated–and, for minority students, racially tense.”
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“A team of researchers at Duke University estimated that 25 percent of technology and engineering companies started from 1995 to 2005 had at least one senior executive born outside the United States.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of