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From a young age, Corteona Standback knew a college education would play a key role in her future. But the Fairley High School alumna never envisioned that her road to college would lead her 400 miles away from her home.
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A writer, philosopher, and educator, Alain Leroy Locke paved the way for African-American artists and scholars.
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Vincent Huynh’s math classes may look different than they did last fall, but one thing remains the same: his commitment to developing growth mindsets and nurturing students’ inherent capacity to learn.
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Breanna Maldonado has demonstrated that you can achieve anything with determination and drive. This year she received a full tuition scholarship to attend the University of California, Los Angeles.
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“I just, I froze. I didn’t know how to process it. My sisters immediately called my parents and they started cheering ‘You’re going to Stanford.”
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1993, Ellen Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to travel into space, aboard NASA’s Discovery Space Shuttle. Ochoa served as a mission specialist who studied the earth’s atmosphere, its relationship between the sun, and the effects of solar wind. Between four separate shuttle missions, she spent more than 900 hours in space.
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“I’ll find a way, or make one.” This is a motto Fairley High School alumna Corteona Standback lives by. Growing up she saw family and friends attend college, only to drop out after their first year. Now in her third year at Clark Atlanta University, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Atlanta Georgia,…
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Shannon Doss wasn’t always college bound. She grew up in South Los Angeles and entered the foster care system at the age of 16.
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A baseball player, executive, and an African-American bank cofounder, Jackie Roosevelt Robinson repeatedly broke the color barrier throughout his life.
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Mae Carol Jemison—an engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut—made history when she became the first African-American woman to travel to space in 1992. As a mission specialist on the NASA Endeavor Spacecraft, Jemison orbited Earth for just over a week.
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Since the beginning of the school year, Dominique Bell, a special education teacher at Ánimo City of Champions Charter High School has reminded her students of two things: She has high expectations for each and every student and will always support them on their educational paths.
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“I remember one day he came home and told me ‘Mom when I don’t understand something my teachers explain it to me in another way and it’s easier for me to get it.”
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