The feeling inside UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion was electrifying. There was close to 10,000 high school seniors and transfer students proudly wearing their colle
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Welcome to Dr. Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy
One of the great things about life is there are moments that can only be described as momentous or life-changing. Ask Dr. Howard Fuller, education leader a
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I am the Latina daughter of two immigrants. My parents instilled in me from an early age that education was important. When I got older, I realized that a
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Last year mental health experts, school counselors and parents were sounding the alarm on the wildly popular Netflix series, “13 Reasons Why,” because of c
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Recently I have been thinking about what it means to be in the “education reform” space and reflecting on how I got here. Many of the people in my life and
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