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• Why teachers won Detroit's 'sick-out' case
• He Convinced 2.8 Million People to Give Him One Penny Each
• Malcolm Gladwell: Get Angry at America’s Best Colleges

Why teachers won Detroit's 'sick-out' case Posted: 20 Aug 2016 01:08 PM PDT After more than a decade of losing enrollment and amassing debt largely under state-appointed emergency managers, the Detroit public school district could be on the verge of writing a new chapter for itself – one in which educators, students, and parents insist on taking back control of their destiny. Teachers closed schools 14 times during the 2016 school year with strikes protesting the state's emergency management of Detroit schools, The Wall Street Journal reported. Leaders at the state and local level criticized them as hurting the already-struggling effort to educate Detroit's children, but the union insisted the strikes brought attention to problems hurting teachers and students alike.

He Convinced 2.8 Million People to Give Him One Penny Each Posted: 20 Aug 2016 01:00 AM PDT Before crowdfunding or the internet, an enterprising freshman named Mike Hayes asked strangers to help fund his college education.

Malcolm Gladwell: Get Angry at America’s Best Colleges Posted: 20 Aug 2016 01:00 AM PDT The bestselling author says American colleges do not do nearly as good a job at helping young people reach their potential as we would like to believe.

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