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Charter Schools

Coffee Break: Charter Leader Vanessa Rodriguez on the Real Difference-Maker We Should Be Talking About

Vanessa Rodriguez has deep experience working with the students of New York City. She started her career as a bilingual teacher at a Bronx elementary school, where she also served as a chapter leader...

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Achievement Gap

Here's a Summer School Kids Actually Want to Attend

Below is a video and transcript of TED Fellow Karim Abouelnaga on his plan to reverse summer learning loss. See how he's helping kids improve their chances for a brighter future....

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student achievement

The Hidden Costs of Our Tutoring Epidemic

There’s a tutoring epidemic. It goes beyond four-year-olds prepping to ace gifted and talented screenings, and teens cramming for the Specialized High School Admissions Test. Those exams are for...

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New York

Here's Why Every Kid Needs Computer Science, Not Just the Kids Who Like Math

The nationwide rush to implement computer science (CS) education in schools is often attributed to a desire to increase workforce preparedness. This makes sense given the growth in CS-related jobs...

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California

Why I Feel Like 'The Spook Who Sat by the Charter School Door'

I am the fly in the school reform buttermilk. An outsider, now marginally on the inside, trying to plot the revolution. Young, gifted and Black, I founded a charter school support organization in...

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Charter Schools

How Teaching a Liberal Education Will Help Our Students Move Past Prejudice and Embrace Our Common Humanity

In 1952, as the world continued to take stock of the devastation wrought by authoritarian regimes, a coalition of prominent universities and preparatory schools called for a renewed general education...

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