Two encouraging articles: keeping kids in school, setting a river free

Keeping kids in school

I really appreciated that "The Scourge of Dropping Out," by Victoria Fahlberg, emphasizes that fighting to keep kids in school requires going the extra step and understanding people's situations. All of us have dealt with authorities in some situation or other who can't see beyond forms and formalities to personal situations. And sometimes even the formalities haven't been maintained--as in the situation Fahlberg initially describes:

I was approached by a Cambodian woman...