Susie Kay started the Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund, which helps poor student to go to college.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

Parents also worry about the effects that personal information or pictures can have on the child's ability to get jobs or go to college.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

That means they're college eligible. So part of the reason college enrollments are at an all-time high is because the pool of youth that's eligible to go to college is also at an all-time high."

VOA: special.2009.11.19

She is a chemical engineer, a medical doctor,a college professor, and in 1992, was the first African-American woman astronaut to go into space.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

"She's expected to stay home, not to go away to college or do anything that would betray the family's idea of what it is to be a good daughter."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

They tend to finish each other's sentences. "My parents always pushed the idea of 'go to college,go to college,'" "And so this is a start of how we're going to..."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

I played Tennis tournaments all over the place and I met new people and make connections and stuff and something that Tennis helped me with is coming to the United States, as you might already know that it is expensive especially for an international student to go to college here in the United States and with the scholarship that I get through Tennis it helps me a lot, so Tennis has opened up many doors for me for opportunities."

VOA: standard.2009.12.14