The 74
25 September 2018
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San Antonio, Texas, United States
In just three years, San Antonio superintendent Pedro Martinez has raised the bar for school integration efforts nationwide - in this time, the district, where 93 percent of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch, has opened 31 schools of choice that are "diverse-by-design." The curriculum, which ranges from talented and gifted to dual language programs, is intended to attract more affluent students from surrounding areas to fill 25 percent of the classroom spots. Journalist Beth Hawkins says, "In 20 years of writing about failed integration efforts, I’ve never seen anything like this."
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/01/busted_unions_and_broken_promi.html
Daniel Simmons-Ritchie
PennLive
12 January 2015
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York schools are considering changing public schools into charter schools, following the example of New Orleans and Michigan, in order to help their crumbling school system. The privatization of these schools can help the facilities become more financially stable, in turn preventing school closures and instability for their students.
http://www.fayobserver.com/article/20140222/News/302229724
Greg Barnes
Fayetteville Observer
22 February 2014
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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.
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-07-20/wanted-bilingual-teachers-and-heres-how-one-school-filling-gap
Kate McGee
Public Radio International (PRI)
20 July 2015
Radio / 3-5 Minutes
Laws make it mandatory for schools with more than twenty English Language Learners (ELLs) in a single grade to have bilingual teachers to support them. One Texas school takes an initiative to find more bilingual teachers for their students as the non-English speaker becomes a more common student in their classroom.
http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/how-a-diverse-yet-divided-school-blended-segregated-classes
Ben Stocking
The Seattle Times
19 October 2015
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In the U.S., the practice of tracked classes or special programs have exacerbated racial separation in schools. Leschi Elementary, in Seattle, made changes to their curriculum to draw white families to a traditionally black school.
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-06-25/language-great-equalizer-one-school-louisiana
Nina Porzucki
Public Radio International (PRI)
30 June 2015
Radio / 5-15 Minutes
A program at a public school in Baton Rouge is using bilingual education to attract middle class families back into the public school system to increase diversity among the student population.
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150930/windsor-terrace/how-one-school-bucks-citys-racially-segregated-gifted-talented-system
Amy Zimmer
DNAinfo
30 September 2015
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A school in Brooklyn uses a lottery-based acceptance system to ensure a diverse class. And instead of sorting the struggling kids from the gifted, they embedded an honors program which kids can opt into without changing classrooms.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/where-private-school-is-not-a-privilege
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
8 May 2013
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Bangladesh schools had very low attendance because children were kept home to work and conditions were unsafe for girls, ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities. BRAC, one of the world's largest and most comprehensive NGOs, has built new schools addressing all the reasons, at home and school, that were preventing children from attending.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/opinion/reframing-the-debate-over-charter-schools/12740
Noliwe Rooks
PBS
5 January 2012
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Only 19 percent of Latino youth have completed an associate’s degree or higher, with 29 percent of African-American young people having done the same. The Making Waves Academy provides children of minority groups with specific counseling for personal problems as well as improved education to help them have a higher college graduation rate.
https://medium.com/bright/the-state-of-education-innovation-in-2015-and-where-we-go-from-here-291b76b2ac0b
Matt Candler
Bright Magazine
27 June 2015
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The United States spends more than any other large, industrialized nation on education. The education system is slowly being reformed through tester groups in charter schools, but it takes a lot of time and money to decide if these programs work.
http://wamu.org/news/15/09/21/catholic-schools-face-new-challenges
Kavitha Cardoza
American University Radio (WAMU)
21 September 2015
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Across the globe, there are nearly 60 million students studying in Catholic institutions. In the United States, however, those numbers have been falling in recent years, forcing schools to come up with new ways to collaborate.
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