Education is changing rapidly across Kentucky and our country. Recently Forward in the Fifth hosted an Educational Summit highlighting these transformations for educators, community leaders and parents
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2011, Forward in the Fifth has spent more than two decades improving the educational outcomes in Southern and Eastern Kentucky.
The Center for Rural Development and Forward in the Fifth wrapped up a week of live “College and Career Readiness: Planning Forward” web video broadcasts Friday.
Forward in the Fifth and The Center for Rural Development are partnering with the University of Pikeville to launch a new peer mentoring program in Pike County. The program, called “Champion Scholars,” will serve middle school students in four schools in the Pike County School District and one from the Pikeville Independent School District. UPIKE Read more…
Going to college once seemed an unobtainable goal for Barbourville middle school student Brandon Fisher. That opinion—and his life—quickly changed when he became involved in the “Bulldog Buddies” mentoring program. “At first, I didn’t want to go to college,” Brandon, now a seventh-grade student at Knox County Middle School, said. “After I met Kyle, and Read more…
Schools in Wayne, Letcher, Breathitt, Bath, Floyd, and Johnson counties are taking a “LEAP” forward to advance education in the region and change the lives of students in their local communities. Forward in the Fifth, in partnership with The Center for Rural Development, has awarded $9,000 in funding support to five groups in these six Read more…
Fueled by advertising specifically targeted to the spending habits of young consumers, many American teens seem to be on a non-stop buying spree. And it doesn’t take long for young people to get over their head in financial trouble after ringing up hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in credit card debt. Forward in the Read more…
Whitley County Middle School student Zach Newman is discovering what he wants to do with his life after he graduates high school. Newman and 19 other Whitley County middle and high school students—all student mentees in the University of the Cumberlands mentoring program—visited The Center for Rural Development in Somerset on May 26 to learn Read more…
