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Written by Tyson Davis - The Positive Observer
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Friday, 09 January 2009 |
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Article Source: The Positive Observer
On a long and dusty road in Lyons, a small South Georgia onion farming community, you will find folks in squalor. You will find them suffering in the glaring sun in the middle of an onion field. They are deprived of a sense of belonging. They are deprived of a sense of dignity. They even deprive themselves of proper medical treatment out of the fear of the unknown. They are the migrant farm workers who pick the food we eat.
Just up the road from Lyons is the City of Statesboro, Georgia, where you can find the columned entrance to a smoothly paved road lined by youthful dogwoods. At the end of that road you’ll find the students who will one day run our cities, our states, and our country. They are educated in state-of-the-art classrooms with heating and air conditioning and all the comforts of home, but what these students cannot learn in the classroom are the firsthand exposures to these silent, obscure members of our communities who float in and out of our lives each year without most of us ever even knowing they were there.
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Read more... [Service-Learning: An Holistic Approach To Education]
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Written by Amanda Paulson - CS Monitor
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Monday, 09 February 2009 |
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Article Source: CS Monitor
Written by - Amanda Paulson - February 10th, 2009
To overcome low test scores and a high dropout rate, the district is implementing radical reforms.
Westminster, Colo. - School districts across the US are trying to improve student performance and low test scores. But few have taken as radical an approach as Adams 50. For starters, when the elementary and middle-school students come back next fall, there won't be any grade levels – or traditional grades, for that matter. And those are only the most visible changes in a district that, striving to reverse dismal test scores and a soaring dropout rate, is opting for a wholesale reinvention of itself, rather than the incremental reforms usually favored by administrators.
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Written by Jeremy P. Meyer - The Denver Post
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Sunday, 21 December 2008 |
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Article Source: The Denver Post
Written by - Jeremy P. Meyer - December 21st, 2008
A school district in Westminster
struggling with declining enrollment and falling test scores will try
something revolutionary next year that many say never has been
accomplished in the Lower 48. Adams 50 will eliminate grade levels and instead group
students based on what they know, allowing them to advance to the next
level after they have proved proficiency.
"If they can pull this off, it will be a lighthouse for
America's challenged school districts," said Richard DeLorenzo, the
consultant who implemented a standards-based model in Alaska and is
working with Adams 50. "It will change the face of American education."
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Written by Eric Frazier - The Charlotte Observer
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 |
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Article Source: The Charlotte Observer
Written by - Eric Frazier - December 11th, 2008
A nationally recognized nonprofit is joining forces with
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to place 50 principals in some of the
county's most troubled schools over the next six years. Superintendent
Peter Gorman described the project Wednesday as “an enormous stride
forward” that will help turn around the lowest-achieving CMS schools.
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Leaders for New Schools, a nonprofit that often reaches into the
military, nonprofit and business world to train new principals...
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Written by Stacy Teicher Khadaroo - CS Monitor
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 |
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Article Source: CS Montior
Written by - Stacy Teicher Khadaroo - November 14th, 2008
Among the potential changes: college at 16, teacher-run schools, and state exams with assignments...
Imagine if students could choose to leave high school as early as age 16 – not to drop out, but because they're ready for
college or career training.
New Hampshire is considering changing its system to allow students to
do just that. Many teens would be motivated to work harder rather than
float through high school, supporters of the idea say. After passing a
state board exam, they could take demanding college-prep courses or
enroll in community college. Those who didn't pass could get help in
their problem areas and then try again.
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