Carry The Two

Filmmaking Program Helps Disadvantaged Kids See A Path To Hollywood Hollywood's film industry can be tough to break in to, and that's especially true if you are a poor kid without resources. Creating Creators is all about changing that — and it's having some success. Read more on NPR

An Alaskan Camp Brings Higher Education Into The Wild In remote Southeast Alaska, an experiment is bringing together radically diverse groups of college students to learn from the land, physical labor and each other. Read more on NPR

'We Wanted Our Patrons Back.' Public Libraries Scrap Late Fines To Alleviate Inequity "There were families that couldn't afford to pay the fines and therefore couldn't return the materials," Chicago Public Library Commissioner Andrea Telli said. "So then we just lost them as patrons." Read more on NPR

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J She goes downstairs ready to review the Algebra II work he'd done the previous day, and his astrology schoolwork, but she pokes her head into his ... from Algebra

Wealthy Donor's Promises College Tuition To Help Spur Growth In Hometown A retired businessman hoping to save his shrinking hometown launched a "Promise" program to pay college tuition for its students, but his plan might simply shift people around among dwindling towns. Read more on NPR

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J He consoled me as I wrestled with high school algebra , advising, “Don't try to change it, try to understand it.” —————. In retrospect, his contention is ... from Algebra

These Students Speak Perfect Spanglish — And Now They're Learning To Own It "To be able to speak Spanglish is to be able to say to people that I am Mexican American, and that's OK," says college freshman Angie Bravo. Read more on NPR