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Search for the hashtag #socent and you'll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here's a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: More than 50 carrot farmers from around the country have banded together this week to take ...

As the sun rose on February 4, 1735, Philadelphians awoke to find a most curious letter to the editor in the morning edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette. “Being old and lame of my Hands, and thereby uncapable of assisting my Fellow Citizens, when ...

A while back we conducted an interview with Joan Sullivan, who was then the Principal of the Bronx Academy of Letters, a New York City middle and high school founded in 2003. Earlier this year, Sullivan was appointed Los Angeles’ Deputy Mayor of ...