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  • A winning model at Tapestry Charter School

    October 11, 2014 |

    The Buffalo News |

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    Response Location: United States, Buffalo, New York

    Tapestry graduates 93 percent of its students on time, and 80 percent of graduates go on to college in the fall. Its success derives from its autonomy as a charter school and from its idea of forming "crews" of students that act as in-school families.

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  • A charter school that beats City Honors

    October 06, 2014 |

    The Buffalo News |

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    Response Location: United States, Buffalo, New York

    The Charter School for Applied Technologies has the highest graduation rate in Erie County, despite its predominantly poor, minority student makeup, in large part simply by instilling high expectations.

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  • An Untapped Force in the Fight for Literacy

    September 11, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    Teaching reading skills to children early is crucial, especially with respect to their educational success later in life. School systems are switching reading programs to help underachieving students have one on one time with a tutor.

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  • Math concepts + teamwork = big gains at struggling Renton school”

    July 14, 2014 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Mercer Island, Washington

    In the Renton School District, teachers found that only a very few fifth-graders could solve problems with the skill that, in other schools, was common in third or even second grade. So they turned math lessons into carefully guided conversations in which students explain their approaches, defend their reasoning and critique each other’s ideas.

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  • A Pennsylvania district takes on cyber charters

    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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  • High poverty, high test scores: Auburn school is a shouting success

    April 27, 2014 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Auburn, Washington

    As school poverty rates goes up, learning and test scores fall. At Gildo Ray elementary school in Washington state uses a teaching method called director or explicit instruction, in which children learn from a structured approach to teaching with teacher-guided practice. Gildo Ray’s test scores in math and reading are among the highest in the state.

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  • Crime and blight still remain

    February 22, 2014 |

    Fayetteville Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Civic leaders in the U.S. struggle to effectively help their distressed neighborhoods. East Lake, Atlanta, created a replicable model that mixes residents of differing socio-economic status, and focuses on education and health in the area.

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  • In the Long War on Poverty, Small Victories That Matter

    January 08, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A panoply of responses to poverty has emerged to address poverty in the United States and abroad. The responses share in three key tactics: Measuring impact, paying for success, and collaboration.

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  • Schools That Separate the Child From the Trauma

    November 13, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Brockton, Massachusetts

    Children are often punished for acting out without consideration of the root cause of their behavior such as a toxic home environment. A trauma center in Washington state is teaching educators to focus on making kids feel safe which more effectively curbs bad behavior.

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  • Teachers jump start turnaround at White Center Heights Elementary

    October 27, 2013 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Conventional wisdom holds that substantive change in public education moves at a glacial pace, and no one at White Center Heights is declaring victory yet. But after failing to gain traction for years, teachers there achieved something that eludes educators across the country: They jump-started a turnaround, and they did it in nine months.

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