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First generation college-bound friends get surprise scholarships
College-bound friends Luisa Bautista and Cindy Cuellar open up about their sacrifices to achieve higher education as immigrants to the United States. Bautista and Cuellar are also surprised as recipients of the Goldberg Scholarship, both receiving $60,000 in financial...
read moreViewpoint: Boston’s business community must answer climate change call
Increasingly, the eyes of the world are focused on tangible and significant manifestations of climate change — atmospheric rivers on the West Coast, loss of glaciers worldwide, droughts in the Southwest of the United States. As a report from The Boston Foundation...
read moreSupreme Court affirmative action case adds urgency to push to end legacy admissions at colleges
Each year, many colleges showcase a profile of incoming classes that cites students’ ethnicity, gender, regional representation, and expected majors. But there’s one data point rarely included: the percentage of first years who were given admission preference because...
read moreThis controversial, for-profit college has received $1.6B in GI Bill funds, the most of any school
The University of Phoenix has continued to receive more GI Bill funding than any other institution of higher learning, despite its history of government scrutiny for misleading military veterans. Read more via USA TODAY >>>
read moreVermont Senate approves bill to end deceptive interrogations
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read moreVermont Senate passes bill to end deceptive interrogations
The Vermont Senate unanimously approved a bill that would prevent law enforcement from misleading people about evidence or leniency during interrogations. Read more >>>
read moreJohnson: Missouri can stop jailhouse informants from sending innocent people to prison
Twenty-eight years. Think of all the things you have done in the past 28 years. Gatherings with family and friends; concerts, sporting events, and vacations; birthdays and Christmases; a lifework that gave you dignity and purpose. I spent those days in prison for a...
read moreOpinion: An obvious reform, 50 years in the making
I was just 18 years old when I got home one night and found my mother dead in her bedroom. She had been murdered, and less than 24 hours later, I was being charged with her death. There was only one problem — I didn’t do it. Read more via the CT Post...
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