In reading the recent coverage around the college admission season it’s easy to think that there is one educational path whose most urgent obstacle occurs in the 12th grade, when high school seniors confront the daunting acceptance rates of the nation’s most elite colleges.
In July, First Lady Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher initiative and Better Make Room campaign invited two College Summit Peer Leaders to join fellow college-bound students from across the country who have overcome substantial obstacles to reach a higher education. They were hosted at the White House on July 19.
I just saw Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle’s film about Miles Davis. Notes and chords and rhythm are the building blocks of a piece of music, and a great jazz composition […]
This past summer, PeerForward trained 110 teams of high school juniors and seniors from public schools from around the country to coach the rest of their classmates to navigate their […]
In their new book, Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination, Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf tell the story of how Thomas Jefferson, […]
Is our current system of education just? In the school reform world, we use and hear the phrase “social justice” all the time, but what does it mean? What are […]
PeerForward will be collaborating with the First Lady’s Reach Higher initiative to celebrate graduating seniors, showcase our student leaders and inspire more young people to take the first steps on […]
For those of you who I haven’t met in person, I am Keith Frome and I became CEO full-time this summer. I was a co-founder of PeerForward, formerly known as […]
Happy New Year to all of our students, alumni, educators, partners and supporters! 2016 will be the year of student-driven change, where our amazing Peer Leaders retreat in the summer with […]
