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All day in school
Teachers and students can learn to love a longer school day, writes Liz Riggs in The Atlantic. But the time has to be used effectively to get buy-in. Many charter schools have extended the school day...
View ArticleNYC: Community schools backers fear failure
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to turn around 94 low-performing schools by converting them to “community schools” with an array of social services. Advocates of community schools fear the...
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Some parents protest breakfast in class
At Mosk Elementary, a Los Angeles school, all students are served breakfast in class. Photo: Nick Ut, AP Serving breakfast in first-period classes to all children is fueling a backlash from parents...
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Good education works for special-needs kids
Students study at Roxbury Prep’s Mission Hill school in Boston. “High-quality generation education can lead to remarkable progress for special education students,” conclude Elizabeth Setren and Nora...
View ArticleDon’t cut learning time for ‘hygiene theater’
? Hygiene theater — unnecessary “deep cleaning” — is “robbing students of learning time,” warns Robin Lake is director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at University of Washington...
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