“Amazing optimism in the worst of times” was what most of us felt on January 20th as President Obama delivered his inauguration speech. In these times, we too have personally accepted both the challenges and the solutions we know are ahead.

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The clock on the wall read 6:30 pm on a Thursday evening. Standing at the back of the classroom watching his staff rush to Angel for a group bear hug, Principal Tom Madson knew they had turned the corner.

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Two Aspire schools, CAL Prep in Oakland and Capitol Heights Academy in Sacramento, have been selected as 2008-09 Title I Academic Achievement schools by the California Department of Education.

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Aspire has been recognized in a list of America's best high schools by U.S. News & World Report.

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This year, over 400 Aspire high school students are taking one or more college courses.

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We know by now what works for at-risk kids. The challenge is trying to replicate it.

Buckle up! Bill Gates, wearing an expensive necktie and looking uncharacteristically formal, is now bringing the same high-speed, high-beam focus to American education that he once brought to computers and, more recently, to international aid.

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