A Learning Curve, op-ed by Rick Dalton and John Mills, as featured in the Albany Times Union

A Learning Curve, op-ed by Rick Dalton and John Mills, as featured in the Albany Times Union

Ticonderoga, a town of 5,100 on the shores of Lake Champlain, struggles every day with something more and more rural communities are forced to confront: a surging tide of poverty that threatens to keep low-income students from ever attaining a college education.

This tide is eroding what communities expect of their children, and hope for their futures. It's keeping them from college not so much because they can't afford it, but because they can't imagine it.

In their op-ed that appears in the January 27th issue of the Albany Times Union, Rick Dalton, president of CFES, and John Mills, president of Paul Smith's College, talk about their efforts to address this issue.

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