By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
One thing was apparent to Dennis Littky after 23 years as a middle and high school principal: The system focused more on test scores than on learning. In 1996, he co-founded the Met Center High School in Providence, Rhode Island, a school designed to meet the personal...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After more than 30 years as a storyteller, writer and teacher, Laura Simms was an Artist in Residence at the Lincoln Center and traveling in Sierra Leone when she met a young orphan, a former child soldier. She adopted him. After watching her son, his friends and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As a child in the northern mountains of India, Swaran Dhawan’s father often took her and her siblings to visit patients at a local hospital, many of them veterans of conflict suffering severe ‘shell-shock’ – now known as post-traumatic stress disorder. At the time,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As a Marymount College professor, Ellen Silber helped bring women’s studies into mainstream academic life. At 63, directing a leadership workshop for Latina adolescent girls, she read some numbers that astounded her: Latina teens have the highest rates among...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
John Foley could have retired in 1996 after 34 years of working with schools in Peru. Instead, the Jesuit priest, then 60, returned to the United States to launch the Cristo Rey Network, an innovative approach to Catholic college preparatory education that now serves...
