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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

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Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. Logan Dubin, eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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Beyond basic reading, kids can learn how to think like a good reader

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Marianne Stewart teaches eighth grade English at Lexington Junior High near Anaheim, California. The strategies focus on what research has shown to be the thought processes of good readers. Marianne Stewart, eight-grade English teacher at Lexington Junior High near Anaheim, California.

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Middle school’s moment: What the science tells us about improving the middle grades

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Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” The school has been held up as a national model by researchers at MIT and the University of Virginia, which is studying how to better align middle school with the developmental needs of adolescents. Chad Ratliff, principal of Community Lab School.

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How one Mississippi district made integration work

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Researchers have found that students in diverse schools can become less prejudiced and more empathetic, and may work harder. Sumner Hill Junior High, now the district’s ninth-grade school, used to be a majority-black school before the district incorporated it into its zone. Beth Raney, parent in Clinton. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

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In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. 1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high.

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Institutions for foster kids aren’t doing enough to educate them

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. — Back when he still lived with his family, when school was across the street from his home in West Philadelphia, Johnathan Hamilton used to plow through reading assignments and research religious questions online. But she was hoping that her cousins would foster her, and she could attend the high school near them.

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She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

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More than one in five college students are parents , according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and some 42 percent of them attend community colleges. Such students are also the most likely to change their plans, recent research shows. Pius V, an all-girls Catholic high school (since closed).

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