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“We learned the most influential person to a 17-year-old is another 17-year-old, and it struck us this might be a key to addressing systemic educational inequity at scale.” -Keith Frome, PeerForward Co-founder and CEO What makes PeerForward so unique in today’s college access field? Backed by research and 20+... Read More
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“Stop seeing students as problems to be solved and start seeing students as problem solvers.” -Keith Frome, CEO and Co-founder, PeerForward Education Excellence is an exciting new podcast highlighting innovative solutions to common issues educators face. The latest episode centers on PeerForward as a cutting-edge solution for providing students... Read More
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Our Managing Director of Program Implementation, Raquel Figueroa, was recently featured in an interview with Comcast Newsmakers on the need for better postsecondary preparation for students at low-income high schools, and how our organization works to improve outcomes for these students. When asked about the... Read More
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PeerForward is excited to be featured in David Bornstein’s recent New York Times article, “The Power of Student Peer Leaders.” As part of the NYT column “Fixes,” the article highlights our peer-to-peer method as a unique and effective solution for closing the gaps of postsecondary achievement for... Read More
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This April, we co-hosted the first-of-its-kind Youth Activation Summit in partnership with Facebook Education, gathering more than 200 youth, educators, and nonprofit leaders from across the country who are inspired to create meaningful change in their communities. From that Summit, both youth and adults who... Read More
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Our Peer Leaders are the lifeblood of the PeerForward movement. Taking on the role is no small feat: not only are Peer Leaders working hard to get themselves to college, they’re making sure their peers are equipped for postsecondary success, too. In doing so, our... Read More
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The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation recently featured PeerForward’s co-founder and CEO Keith Frome on their blog series, “On College Success.” The blog highlights Frome’s responses to questions on the transformative power of PeerForward, the passions that drive his work, and his own vision for... Read More
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Complex and expensive interventions to close the college degree attainment gap between higher-income students and lower-income students have not yet succeeded. Could it be that a crucial and powerful tactic – the power of peer influence – has been overlooked for far too long? Inside... Read More
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The prestigious Brookings Institution featured the success of our PeerForward model as a promising, innovative approach to expanding college access and improving public education. “While by no means a silver bullet, students themselves may be an untapped resource that could help transform our public schools,”... Read More
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The core belief of PeerForward is that the power of positive peer influence can help drive up college enrollment and attainment rates for high schools serving students in low-income neighborhoods. In a guest blog post on EdWeek.org, co-authored by our CEO and Co-founder Keith Frome and... Read More
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We are honored to be featured in the prestigious Stanford Social Innovation Review for our recent work redeveloping our business model to serve more students. The article focuses on two organizations that seem to have nothing in common – PeerForward (formerly known as College Summit)... Read More
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We’ve changed our name, but our mission and values are the same. After two decades of leveraging peer influence to guide more students to higher education, we’ve adopted a name that reflects the power of youth activation. Read more