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Eye-Opening Student Conundrum Stories that All Out for Change® Seeks to Solve
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Watch a short TODAY SHOW segment with an aspiring opera singer.

School Counselors Increasingly are Missing Link in Getting Kids to College 
“I Was a Low-Income College Student. Classes Weren’t the Hard Part.” Anthony Abraham Jack, New York Times

Giving Up Wasn’t An Option’: How One Man Beat The Odds To Graduate From College
“A poor DC student beats the odds by graduating from Georgetown University with business degrees.” ​

Amid a Life of Poverty and Torment, the Cello Became his Instrument of Survival, Washington Post, April 13, 2019
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“For cyclist, trek with his new pal is the cat’s meow”
Cyclist Dean Nicholson found a kitten as he traveled across Europe. He brought her along for the ride.
KidsPost,The Washington Post, 11/17/2020
  Eye-Opening Reading
 IN THE NEWS
The latest crisis: Low-income students are dropping out of college this fall in alarming numbers
Many low-income students say they don’t have good enough WiFi at home to take online courses.

"Students from families with incomes under $75,000 are nearly twice as likely to say they “canceled all plans” to take classes this fall as students from families with incomes over $100,000, according to a U.S. Census Bureau survey in late August.” The Washington Post, 9/16/2020
“I spent the last few months focusing on finding a place to live rather than focusing on school,” said Roshelle Czar, 26, a junior at Sacramento State University. “Due to an emotionally unstable family dynamic, I do not have the privilege of going back to an actual home.” The Washington Post, 9/16/2020
​As Teens Moving From Foster Care Reach Adulthood, Obstacles Mount 
“Young people at 18 or 21 are at this point of falling off a cliff because they don’t have the support or services they need...They also don’t have the folks they can rely on to help them make difficult decisions in their life and get them on the path to success.”  The Washington Post, 11/14/2018
Chef Jonny Rhodes Built A Revered Houston Restaurant. His Next Mission: Fighting ‘Food Apartheid' 
The Washington Post, 7/2/2020
I’m A Black Doctor. I Wear My Scrubs Everywhere Now.
The Washington Post, 7/20/2020

 AND BOOKS

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A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper
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"The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives. Growing up on Chicago's Westside in the 90's, Arshay Cooper knows the harder side of life. The street corners are full of gangs, the hallways of his apartment complex are haunted by drug addicts he calls "zombies" with strung out arms, clutching at him as he passes by. His mother is a recovering addict, and his three siblings all sleep in a one room apartment, a small infantry against the war zone on the street below. 

….one day as he's walking out of school he notices a boat in the school lunchroom, and a poster that reads "Join the Crew Team". Having no idea what the sport of crew is, Arshay decides to take a chance."​

A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life by Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts 2007-2015 
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“In January 2007, Deval Patrick became the first Black governor of Massachusetts, one of only two Black governors elected in American history. But that was just one triumphant step in a long, improbable journey that began in a poor tenement on South Side of Chicago.”

​Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on The Navajo Nation by Michael Powell
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"A Navajo basketball team takes on the universal challenges of high school and the great joys and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations…. This book details Powell’s season-long immersion in the team, the town, and a culture in which there are exhilarating wins, crushing losses, and conversations on long bus rides across the desert about dreams of leaving home and the fear of the same."

Coming of Age in the Other America by Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist & Kathryn Edin
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“…presents a sensitive, nuanced account of how a generation of ambitious but underprivileged young Baltimoreans have struggled to succeed. It both challenges long-held myths about inner-city youth and shows how the process of “social reproduction”- where children end up “stuck” in the same place as their parents - is far from inevitable."

The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
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 by Anthony Abraham Jack
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"Drawing on interviews with dozens of undergraduates at one of America’s most famous colleges and on his own experiences as one of the privileged poor, Jack describes the lives poor students bring with them and shows how powerfully background affects their chances of success."

Sing for Your Life by Daniel Bergner
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A book recommended by Anthony Anderson (see our Inspiring Stories page), a student at Oberlin Conservatory of Music perfecting his opera skills. Once I opened it, I couldn’t put it down. It’s one of the many riveting stories I’ve read in the last year: heartwarming for the success Ryan Speedo Green achieved thanks to the good fortune of a middle school teacher starting him on a journey out of poverty and, ultimately to operatic stardom; and heartbreaking, for all those students our educational system leaves behind and for whom “angels” don’t discover.

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
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"Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader, while the other ended up a convicted murderer serving a life sentence?"

 Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. A national bestseller by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, both winners of a Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
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"Kristof and WuDunn tell the story of America’s crisis partly through the lives of friends Kristof grew up with in rural Yamhill, Oregon, a working-class area that was hit badly by the disppearance of blue-collar jobs."

​Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us by Paul Tough
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"Tells the stories of students trying to find their way, with hope, joy, frustration, through the application process into college . . . Whether you are facing your own decision about college or simply care about the American promise of social mobility, The Years that Matter Most will change the way you think - not just about higher education, but about the nation itself. " 
So Many Urban, Rural, and American Indian Reservation Youth Need More Than Financial Aid to Succeed; All Out for Change® Fills That Critical Need 
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