“For youths growing up in households with parents who didn’t attend college or whose families struggle financially, going to college may have been something they hadn’t considered attainable until a caring adult showed them they could and helped them build a plan.”
Getting SFUSD students to college [Ex]
“The Minerva Prize is intended to be the Nobel Prize equivalent for innovative teaching, said Ben Nelson, former president of Snapfish, the online photo company, who founded Minerva in 2011.”
The Minerva – a Nobel for college teaching [Chron]