The author describes how he left a lucrative business consulting job to found the nonprofit Pencils of Promise, an organization responsible for building schools
For centuries, experts have argued that learning was about memorizing information: You're supposed to study facts, dates, and details; burn them into your memor
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Pencil and his boy Jackson are a great pair: they draw, they sketch, they scribble. But then Jackson gets Tablet and Pencil finds himself dumped in the dreaded
Traces the inspirational story behind the creator of the service-oriented program dedicated to transforming inner-city communities by providing educational oppo