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The extraordinary story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students"Georgia State . . . has been reimagined - amid a moral awakening and a raft of data-driven experimentation - as one of the South's more innovative engines of social mobility." - The New York Times Once just another unglamorous urban university, Georgia State University has become a place of miracles and wonders in the heart of Atlanta, the city that spawned the civil rights movement. GSU is a living experiment in the education of lower income students and a crucible in which the promise of social advancement through talent and hard work, the essence of the American Dream, is being rekindled in an age of deep inequality and political crisis.