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Jessica Decklinger
for commanding attention in just about any room. She never apologized for raising three kids on her own, or for becoming a successful advertising executive. She never apologized for teaching us to feel thankful. She never apologized for...
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Stephanie Atiase
dreams that are the first step to actualizing goals. We then turn their stories into live theater productions where kids can see their own words on stage. It’s all about teaching kids the about the strength...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
street kids — five- and six-year-olds living by their wits, selling things on the street, with no access to education or hope for the future. I thought about everything my parents had done to give us the best education possible, and it...
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Mike Watitwa
people from all corners of the world, with different affiliations, beliefs and aspirations in life. As a kid what did you want to be when you grew up? Many things. The most enduring desire was to be a music artist. The Kenyan urban...
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Bianca Tabourn
mirror. Buy my mom the house I promised her when I was 13-years old. Buy my father the car I promised him just yesterday. Be remembered as the woman who erased the achievement gap between minority and white students. Have my grandmother stick around long enough to meet...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Just Extraordinary
foster care and orphanages to help raise international awareness about orphan issues. Turner, herself adopted out of Washington’s foster care system, worked at Procter & Gamble and BET Networks before becoming a successful entrepreneur. “My goal is to show teenage...
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Bahia El Oddi
“Bahia! Let’s climb this tree together!” Mehdi shouted from the other side of the garden. We raced to climb the tree as fast as possible. “Nasty kids! Stop it! It is forbidden!” As always, the gardener was running behind us. Nasty kids –...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Toy Story
2006, Schmults said that “any time you’re in a tough retail environment and your traffic is up 50 percent, you know you’re doing something right.” He added, “This is a happy place to work. How could it not be? You see kids racing around...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Adventure in Reading
Abominable Snowman, which features the voices of actors William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman. Norton believes the DVDs will actually encourage kids to read, just as children read Harry Potter books after seeing one of the movies. Even...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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A Day’s Pay
Times (June 3, 2010). “It’s kind of hard to take the farmworker out of the kid and the legislator when you come from farmworker stock and you see what your parents and grandparents have gone through.” As for the future, Florez said public...
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Payal Agrawal Divakaran
Business School (HBS). Prior to that, she worked at Eventbrite, Spectrum Equity, and J.P. Morgan. Payal received her MBA, with Distinction, from HBS and her BS in Electrical Engineering and minor in Management from MIT. She is a Boston native and Boston sports fan. She...
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Arielle Loeb
settled, starting an organization that enables disadvantaged high-school kids to live abroad, or opening a bakery to which people delight in coming. I want to fall in love with the guy who makes my socks go up and down and start a family...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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A Wider Net
of those aged 18 to 34, tied with basketball at 11 percent and trailing only football, and a recent Nielsen survey found that 55 percent of 16to-24-year old Americans were “interested” or “very interested” in soccer. That makes it harder to blame whatever digital...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Another area that we’re interested in is how parents should think about these things with their kids. How should we think about teaching our kids about time and money so that they make decisions that science says are good for them? What...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
back up to speed academically? Sal Khan: As we look to the next several months, we are thinking about how students are going to show up to school with huge gaps in their knowledge. Some kids will keep learning and might even accelerate....
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Yong-yi Zhu
human race. Who knows? Maybe one day, a young kid will look out his window, and even with parents in different corners of the world, will still feel as though they are right next to him.
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Terrance Rogers
jobs, she worked tirelessly to make sure her kids had the opportunity to dream. I’m sure she had a dream once, but it was buried under her circumstances. Her dream was buried, under the thumb of Jim Crow in the South. Her dream was...
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Mark Cicirelli
When I was a kid I blew the fuse in my parents' house—a lot. I had turned the basement into my "laboratory," where I spent far too many late nights poring through science books, building gadgets, and using a lot of electricity....
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Gordon C. Liao
from unseen communities on stage, tv, in page and through the movies build self esteem for next generation's babies so tomorrow my kid can say he's proud of his beginnings wondering why his daddy was ever nicknamed mr. miyagi i want to...
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Robert Duke Biederman
boardroom. I want to do things like that for my kids. When I was a little boy, my mom was a lawyer in private practice. She left work early and took me to the park for ice cream and a ride on the carousel. I want to build a company by day, but take my View Details