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A Different Olympic Quest
by Sam M. Intrator and Don Siegel on March 10, 2014
The Sochi Olympics brought us transcendent moments of speed, grace, and power--and the opportunity to wonder: how did they get so good?
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Using the Arts to Turn Schools Around: Evidence builds in favor of integrating arts for positive outcomes
by Suzanne Bouffard on March 1, 2014
Ask students and parents how the arts are seen in their schools, and many will say that they are treated as add-on enrichment programs. But a new national initiative is betting that a full embrace of the arts can be an effective core turnaround strategy for schools with low achievement.
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The Role of Resource Reform in Improvement and Innovation
by Heather Zavadsky on February 26, 2014
Part of why classrooms look the same as they did more than fifty years ago is the tendency to cling to traditional instructional delivery methods and arrangements.
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Remembering Mandela in a New Demographic Era
by Stella M. Flores on January 30, 2014
The death of Nelson Mandela on December 5, 2013, reignited the personal relationship Stella M. Flores has had with South Africa for decades.
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Can We Foster School Integration in Our Changing Suburban Communities?
by Genevieve Siegel-Hawley on January 28, 2014
America's suburbs are in the middle of a profound racial/ethnic and socioeconomic transformation.
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The Limits and Dangers of McIntosh’s Ideas About White Privilege
by Timothy J. Lensmire, for the Midwest Critical Whiteness Collective on December 17, 2013
Recently, a new member, Sam Tanner, joined our collective. Sam is a high school drama teacher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota.
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Exploring the Environment with Standards-Based Lessons
by Gerald A. Lieberman on November 1, 2013
Throughout most of human history, people have lived in direct contact with nature, growing their own food, raising or killing animals to eat, using trees and stones to build homes, and using water for irrigation, household purposes, and transportation. Since the beginning of time, and long before the existence of formal systems of education, the most important thing humans taught their children was how to survive by exploiting nature’s resources. Not until about 150 years ago, when more people began to live in cities than in the country, and education became more formally organized around the three Rs, did the environment become something optional when it came to education.
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Your Ideas, Your Thoughts, Your Goals, Your Dreams…Your Voice
by Starcia Ague on October 7, 2013
Even with my busy schedule and never-ending to-do list, I always take the time to browse my binder stuffed with hand-written letters, stories, and poems from the incarcerated young people I work with.
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Do Bullying Laws Work?
by Elizabeth Kandel Englander on September 19, 2013
Before 2005, only 15 states had laws about bullying. Since that year, the number of states with laws has more than tripled (according to BullyPolice.Org), yet the debate over the legitimacy and effectiveness of these laws persists.
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Systemic Turnaround: A Strategic Move Out of the Box
by Heather Zavadsky on September 3, 2013
Children enter schools with different levels of preparedness. Not just in high-poverty areas, but in all schools. Visit any school in the U.S., and teachers will tell you about the wide spread academic needs they address on a daily basis. Yet for well over fifty years, we have educated children using the same traditional structures, arrangements, and approaches.
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