educated

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The findings challenge the familiar idea that success mainly comes from growing up in a wealthy or highly educated family.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

Though Vargas’ mother was educated in the American school system, she made a point of preserving her family’s mother tongue.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

The latest data shows that barristers are at least three times more likely to have been privately educated than the wider population.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

Meanwhile, more than half of voucher recipients were already being privately educated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

About one hundred feet up that path sat the Mary McLeod Bethune Grade School, the white wooden two-room schoolhouse where our town’s Colored children were educated.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson