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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

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When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. As those students enter the workforce and gain experience, it’s quite possible that their wages will catch up too.

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OPINION: What health care can teach educators about the difference between ‘equal’ and ‘equitable’

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Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. He served as Secretary of Education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2008 to 2013. City Connects has shown strong results. Outcomes are encouraging.

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

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After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Atlanta’s school board passed many of its enrollment policies and procedures back in 2008, after years of gentrification and a building boom consolidated upper-income and mostly white residents in the northern half of the city.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

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Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. Elementary schools like P.S. 124 are the “new frontier, because upper elementary is a great time to introduce kids to theater.”

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

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Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Known as the birthplace of country music, Bristol has seen rates of poverty and drug use rise significantly since the 2008 recession. BRISTOL, Va. — Proof Points.

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

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I would have been a dropout.”. Harvey Austin Elementary is located on Buffalo’s east side, where high unemployment results in 92 percent of its students receiving free or reduced-priced lunch. I don’t even talk to my [real] sister about them or cry in front of her. And I do that with [Stubbe]. Photo: Amadou Diallo.

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

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High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education. But before that he was a student at Cottonport Elementary, which is majority black, almost entirely low-income and has struggled for years to improve its academic performance.