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Picking Up the Beat from Peers
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 […]
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Compassion and College Access
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 […]
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A More “Universal Acquaintance” and the Power of Peer Influence
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, […]
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What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Justice?
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 […]
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PeerForward Teams Up with Reach Higher for College Signing Day
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 […]
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Students Are the Answer
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 […]
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Recognizing the Power of Peer-Led Initiatives
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 […]
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The Fable of the Two-Sided Mountain – A Story of the College Access World
There once was a mountain with a north side and a south side. The peak of the mountain, which was seen in its distance equally well from both sides, afforded […]
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President Signs the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
PeerForward congratulates and thanks President Obama for signing the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). We also thank the Congress for providing ESSA language requiring, where the data is available, each […]