“No field impacts a young person’s life like education does,” says newly named Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, S. Dallas Dance, Ph.D., on why learning is so important to him. Currently chief officer of over 200,000 students in Houston Public Middle Schools, Dance will officially take over as superintendent July 1, an amazing feat [...]

To celebrate the company’s 10th anniversary, Perennial, a Washington, D.C.-based family of businesses, under direction of national business leader and advocate Lamell McMorris, is launching a youth competition to encourage students to launch their own business ideas. McMorris said, “As an entrepreneur, I’m pleased to encourage young people to think big and act on their [...]

There’s no doubt about it: Hollywood often traffics in stereotypes, and sometimes even the attempt to call them out falls on deaf ears or is met with skepticism, finger-pointing, and a lack of action. However, a video inspired by fundraising efforts for the community-building organization Mama Hope hits the nail on the head when it comes [...]

It is arguably one of the best innovations at Makerere University; an innovation which connects students to the best laboratories across the world with a click of a mouse. This is the iLabs project, a seven-year-old computer network that is fast turning the university into a hotspot of research and innovation. At first sight, the [...]