By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As a volunteer working to improve medical conditions in Ecuador, Timothy Bilodeau stood by a mother whose 3-year-old child had just died for lack of 25 cents worth of medicine. The impoverished woman, in agony, had been forced to choose between buying food or medicine...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Educator and poet Mel King, 77, founded the South End Technology Center @ Tent City in Boston in 1997 to provide access to technology and technological training to those who had been excluded from the technological revolution. King had always been interested in...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As President & CEO of the KnowledgeWorks Foundation, Chad Wick, 63, wants to transform the American public school system and increase the number and diversity of those who receive a high quality education. In Ohio, KnowledgeWorks Foundation is collaborating with...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A quarter of American high school students drop out before graduation. What if the problem isn’t teachers or schools, but how we measure learning itself—as “seat time” spent in a class? Fred Bramante thinks it is. “School taught me that I wasn’t very bright,” Bramante...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2005, Robert Crowell and Barbara Crowell Roy’s lives changed forever. Their daughter, a 30-year old successful corporate attorney, Eve Crowell, accidentally died from a drug and alcohol overdose. Robert was months away from retiring from his long neurosurgery...
