Category: Students

The books will be on display at the Clinton School’s Sturgis Hall, the renovated passenger train station adjacent to the Clinton Presidential Library. Printed lists will also be available at WordsWorth Books in Little Rock and at the Central Arkansas Library System’s main library.

The selections from each class are permanently housed in the school’s reading room. Recommended Reading From The Class of 2016:

Dear President Clinton,

“Closing the achievement gap” is a phrase that has become identified with a particular style of education reform, which defines achievement mostly in terms of test scores. While I support goals related to accountability, there are other methods of measuring achievement and other challenges that deserve attention.

The class of 2016 includes: Olajumoke Joyce Ajayi (Lagos, Nigeria) – Ajayi is a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria and holds a Law Degree from The Nigerian Law School.

Currently, this journey with renewable energy is bringing me around the world. I am sitting at an internet café watching humpback whales breach off the coast of Tonga, where I have worked with the highly lauded Tonga Energy Road Map (TERM) and a community born-and-raised climate resiliency NGO.

Dear Clinton: Let’s Change the Way We Educate Our Youth. The Bishnois are the original “tree huggers” and India’s – possibly the world’s – first environmentalists.

I’m thrilled that this is a growing trend, as I believe strongly that we are much happier when we live more harmoniously with one another and with the planet – when we consume less and share better. For many years, one of my personal and professional missions has been to promote recycling, but collaborative consumption takes waste reduction to a whole new level.

Many communities in the united States are literally and figuratively undernourished. They lack access to good food for the body, mind, and soul. We must work with these communities to build bridges to increase access to healthy food, improved education, and empowering activities.

Low-income youth face a myriad of challenges: painful choices, feeling unsafe, both in their homes and communities, negative perceptions, food insecurity, and many others. Youth in this sector are more likely to face teenage pregnancy, domestic violence, drug abuse and neglect, homelessness, and a host of other issues.

I work for a world in which women and girls feel like their ability to get elected, promoted, or considered for a position is not hindered by gender and where sense of self is based on accomplishments and confidence, not how other people limit or define us.