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

    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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  • From slipping through the cracks to the college track

    April 14, 2014 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The Rainier Scholars program in Seattle places fifth graders, who are all minorities, in special coursework through middle and high school, finally offering rigorous college coaching. In Oakland, CA, the National College Advising Corps directs recent graduates into schools to be role models and guides for at-risk students.

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  • How One Teacher Achieved Insane Reading Growth Last Year

    March 18, 2014 |

    EdSurge News |

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    Response Location: United States, Navarre, Florida

    Tracy Fischetti's high school students improved their reading level scores about three times as much as expected last year, thanks to her innovative approach of heavy content integration into collective class activities, plus an emphasis on students tracking their own Lexile level reading growth.

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  • Northfield program shrinks Latino achievement gap

    December 12, 2013 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Northfield, Minnesota

    Minnesota schools began a comprehensive program aimed at assisting children of minority groups to successfully navigate the college application process and push them towards higher education.

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  • Program removes barriers to learning English

    November 14, 2013 |

    Orange County Register |

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    Response Location: United States, Huntington Beach, California

    The Twilight Education Club is a non-profit working to break down the barriers – transportation, child care and cost – that typically prevent the economically disadvantaged from accessing social services such as language classes. While the Twilight program is specifically geared toward the needs of the parents - getting better jobs and securing greater stability - the long-term focus remains on creating future opportunities for their children.

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  • Even Odds Day 2: Manhood 101

    August 18, 2013 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    In Oakland, black males are almost as likely to be killed as they are to graduate high school. One school is giving them special classes with black mentors to better address their emotional needs and keep them in school.

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  • Mentoring Students to Prevent the ‘Summer Slide'

    August 07, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Many students doing poorly in school are not doing poorly enough to go to city-mandated summer school - yet they will likely fall further behind their peers during the summer. A summer school program in New York City is having success with these kids – employing 11-year-olds as teachers.

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  • 'Boy or Girl?' Gender a new challenge for schools

    May 28, 2013 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Tampa, Florida

    Conventional school policies fail to address the needs of transgender students. A school district in Tampa changed its human rights ordinance to include gender identity and expression.

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  • A By-the-E-Book Education, for $5 a Month

    May 22, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu, Nyanza

    For-profit companies are making good private schools available even to Africa’s poor. They can do it – and can do it on an enormous scale – by hiring neighborhood residents to teach, and scripting out every word of every lesson on an e-reader.

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  • Home visiting programs are preschool in its earliest form

    May 13, 2013 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Manassas, Virginia

    Through programs across the country, nurses, social workers, or trained mentors offer support to new or expectant parents, imparting skills to help them become better teachers for their children. Through regular home visits with the families, these programs are working to close an achievement gap between rich and poor children that starts as early as just nine months into a child's life.

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