When I started College Summit fifteen years ago, one of the most compelling displays of inequality in post secondary education was that low income students with good grades went to college at a rate lower than affluent students with poor grades. College Summit was in part founded to help create a college-going culture to better support these college-capable lower income students.

According to a recent editorial in Money magazine, editor Pat Regnier acknowledges that this work…

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Often the notion of being a social entrepreneur and an innovator in public service has been restricted to a handful of charismatic leaders who launch new organizations – just as College Summit’s founder J.B. did.  It wasn’t long ago (1993 to be exact) when he was in a basement of a D.C. housing project developing his idea for the change he sought.  Sixteen years and tens of thousand of students…

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