Recently, I had the opportunity to join more than 100 leaders from the nation’s selective admissions public high schools at a summit focusing on the academic disparity between lower-income and higher-income students. “Closing the Excellence Gap: Building the Pipeline” was…
With a new semester under way at Arkansas high schools, counseling offices are abuzz with high school seniors finalizing college admissions applications and scholarship essays. While seniors are transitioning from the active part of their college search to playing the…
While the end of a semester is usually the time where students’ interest in a particular topic is winding down, a pair of Arkansas events this past month were focused on ramping up interest for young women in computer science…
One of the most talked about movies of the year is coming to the big screen in a matter of weeks. After a decade’s absence from cinemas and nearly 40 years from the franchise’s debut, the seventh feature installment of…
When I moved to Arkansas three years ago, I received a curious email in my inbox with the following subject line: “Taylor Wilson or Tyler Wilson: In Which Young Arkansan Should We Invest?” I was new to the state and…