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Putting students in charge to close the achievement gap

Emily Richmond

October 24, 2014 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, Pittsfield, New Hampshire

Students take responsibility for their own learning at Pittsfield Middle High School, where student-centered learning puts them in charge of leading discussions, creating group work goals and individual learning projects.

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A Creative Way to Educate Low-Income Students

Deborah Fallows

October 16, 2014 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

In Columbus, Ohio, a high school is pooling vouchers, donations, and earnings from its work study program to reach some of the city's students living below the poverty line.

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Seattle's Garfield High wants hazing to be history

Claudia Rowe

August 26, 2014 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Incoming students are more likely to submit to hazing if they fear being ostracized. Link Crew is a national program that teaches upperclassman during the summer to connect with freshman throughout the year, changing the social culture of a school.

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Newark's jobs training is a model for Buffalo schools

Tiffany Lankes

August 17, 2014 |

The Buffalo News |

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Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

Across the country, educators increasingly look to vocational programs to better prepare students for the 21st-century workforce. Newark, New Jersey is spearheading a program of vocational education.

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Brooklyn's Prospect Heights offers a model for teaching immigrants

Sandra Tan

July 13, 2014 |

The Buffalo News |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Schools with high percentages of immigrants and refugees face the particularly difficult challenges of language acquisition and cultural integration. One Brooklyn school succeeds by having students teach one another and incorporating English language lessons into every class.

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How Bronx's Eagle Academy helps inner-city kids soar

Tiffany Lankes

June 22, 2014 |

The Buffalo News |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Eagle Academy in the Bronx combines rigorous academics, high expectations, and a structured environment to help minority students succeed.

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Eagle Academy inspires Buffalo's chapter of 100 Black Men

Tiffany Lankes

June 22, 2014 |

The Buffalo News |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

The Eagle academies are part of a network of schools in New York City and Newark that are devoted to educating at-risk boys from the inner city by providing them with mentors.

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A Pennsylvania district takes on cyber charters

Sarah Garland

May 13, 2014 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, Quakertown, Pennsylvania

The small rural school district of Quakertown in Bucks County has become a national model for how to use technology to transform the public school experience. The majority of students in the district take at least one class online and all ninth graders are given laptops they can take to college when they graduate.

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MPS looks to Oakland model to work differently with African-American boys

Beth Hawkins

May 05, 2014 |

MinnPost |

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Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

African American boys were being treated less-than-equally by the Oakland Unified School District – a change of culture was implemented and the playing field leveled. Now, Minnesota is looking to adopt the same system that was started in Oakland by creating schools that are exclusively for African American males in hopes to help them reach higher standards of achievement.

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High School in Southern Georgia: What ‘Career Technical' Education Looks Like

James Fallows

March 27, 2014 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States, St. Marys, Georgia

A high school in Southern Georgia addresses their dismal graduation rates by adopting a "career technical" approach to teaching that offers students a choice of five career path "academies." Once a student is enrolled in their academy, they learn practical skills required of that career path - along with typical high school requirements. Since implementation of this teaching style, the graduation rate has increased by nearly 35%.

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