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The million-dollar scholarship nobody saw me earn
A first-generation student from Alabama worked unpaid midnight shifts to secure $1 million in aid to NYU, sacrificing her teenage years to compete.
Business Insider · 2m
Hannah-Jones’ School Choice Crisis
A journalist’s decade-long school journey reveals why individual choices can’t fix public schools.
The New Yorker · 1m