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The extraordinary story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students
Georgia State . . . has been reimaginedamid a moral awakening and a raft of data-driven experimentationas one of the South''s more innovative engines of social mobility.
The New York Times
Won''t Lose This Dream is the inspiring story of a public university that has blazed an extraordinary trail for lower-income and first-generation students in downtown Atlanta, the birthplace of the civil rights movement.
Over the past decade Georgia State University has upended the conventional wisdom that large numbers of students are doomed to fail simply because of their economic background or the color of their skin. Instead, it has harnessed the power of big data to identify and remove the obstacles that previously stopped them from graduating and completely transformed their prospects. A student from a mediocre h
