#education-inequality

#education-inequality

It opened my eyes, he says. I had heard stories, but it opened my eyes to the reality of what my dad faced growing up, the conditions. And you're fighting against the [odds]. If we're in a race with the rest of the world, you're starting further behind [in Togo] than, let's say, we are in Canada. So I thought to myself, if one day we can come back as a family, do something.

In a scene as idyllic as a Norman Rockwell painting, Elevate Tutoring fellow Mia Matute sat at a dining table with her 12-year-old tutee, Kaycie Grant, as golden hour light shone on the fractions of a paper worksheet as they worked together one Friday evening in the Oakland hills. Grant solved another problem in a series that had given her difficulty. Do you see the pattern, now? Matute asked.