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Through my experience leading KIPP, a network of 183 public schools serving largely educationally underserved students, I've come to believe leaders in higher education have never been more interested in charting a new course. And it's clear that when colleges make a priority of sending a message of opportunity, students respond and thrive. Just ask the 41 KIPP alumni who attend the University of Pennsylvania, or the 19 at UNC Chapel Hill, or the 10 at Wesleyan University, or the 34 at Franklin and Marshall, or the 15 at UC Berkeley. If this is possible for students at one network of schools, think what is possible for this nation.

A new study of KIPP, a large charter network serving mainly low-income black and Hispanic students, finds that its schools continue to have a positive impact overall on student achievement...

KIPP Dallas-Fort Worth has received a two-year, $1 million grant from Simmons Family Foundation to aid its drive to expand to 10 campuses by 2020.

KIPP Charlotte is on a mission to help students from underserved communities go to college, and joining us today is Tiffany Flowers, the Executive Director of KIPP here in Charlotte.

With its decision to approve a modified expansion of KIPP Reach Academy, the Oklahoma City School Board chose to compromise - a practice all too rare in these politically charged times. It's a move that at its core will help children.

Kalifey-Aluise and several of her colleagues then began to spell out just what she meant by "tough." Two weeks before the storm, KIPP had opened its first school in New Orleans, KIPP Phillips College Prep-a middle school in Gentilly, with a hundred and twenty students.

Clairemont Elementary School in Decatur, Johns Creek Elementary School in Forsyth County and KIPP STRIVE Academy in Atlanta were three of nine Georgia schools named National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2015.

On the day before Christmas, when others took paid vacation, Richard Moten walked onto a median on San Felipe Street, near the wealth of the Galleria. He flashed his white poster at drivers, the message in capital letters.

One day in the summer before fifth grade, Courtney Scott was jumping rope with a friend outside her family's West Philadelphia rowhouse when her parents called her inside to meet a stranger. The visit was not the only thing about KIPP Philadelphia Charter School that would be different.

Applications flooded the PEOPLE offices when we asked you to nominate candidates for our first Teacher of the Year competition....Arwen Imai Matthews teaches introductory physics and chemistry to 8th graders at KIPP 3D Academy Middle School in Houston.