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This student's state banned her from its best public universities, so she went to the Ivy League instead

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Growing up and attending school in northern Georgia, Valentina Garcia Gonzalez, now 19, exuded confidence in the academic arena. She was accepted into gifted classes and took more than two dozen advanced-placement (AP) courses at Berkmar High School, a public school in Lilburn, Georgia, right outside of Atlanta. But that confidence began to waiver when […]

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Tampa, Florida: America's Least Sexy City?

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Considering Tampa, Florida, is sunny year round, you’d think it’d be a sexy vacation destination. Not according to a new survey, which says the “Big Guava” is America’s least sexy city. — This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used […]

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Minority Students With Disabilities Fast-Tracked to Prison: Activist Leroy Moore, Jr. Talks Solutions

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In part one of this Leroy Moore, Jr.’s new book Q: You already discussed the problems of students with special needs being funneled into prisons at an alarming rate. Let’s talk about the solutions. Do you see any immediate solutions? Leroy: The prison-to-pipeline problem won’t be solved overnight, but there are strategies parents, schools, advocacy […]

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Top 10 child labor stories of 2015

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There were plenty of ups and downs in the fight against child labor this year. With an estimated 168 million children still trapped in exploitative labor, including 85 million doing hazardous work, we have an ambitious agenda ahead of us in 2016. Here are 10 highs and lows from 2015: 1. The U.S. Department of […]

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Safer Polio Vaccines on Way for Use After Eradication

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The goal of eradicating polio worldwide is within sight. But public health officials must make sure that vaccines administered after that point cannot cause a recurrence of the disease. Researchers in Britain have come up with a safe strain that would prevent polio reinfection. Polio vaccines are stockpiled for use into the foreseeable future to […]