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  • Hillary Clinton Wants to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline. She Should Embrace Restorative Justice.

    Restorative justice programs essentially focus on rehabilitation instead of punishment. Schools that use the model try to understand and address the deficits that provoke students to misbehave, and teach students how to reconcile the consequences of their actions with all those affected by them.

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  • Will more money for schools really help kids? New study may have long-term answer

    While research is mixed on whether increases in school spending lead to better results for students, a study suggests that influxes of dollars from court decisions lead to higher graduation rates and earnings, especially for low-income students.

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  • How Schools in Brazil Are Teaching Kids to Eat Their Vegetables

    Childhood obesity is on the rise in Brazil and kids tend to reject vegetables. But thousands of school gardens around the country are changing children's eating habits by helping to build a connection to fresh food.

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  • Why Oklahoma's public preschools are some of the best in the country

    Free, universal preschool education has been a priority - one that transcends politics - for leaders in the small town of Clinton, Oklahoma.

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  • A Bold Shift to Make Public Schools Serve Poor Students

    Last year, New York City began turning schools in poor neighborhoods into community schools—combining rigorous instruction and extracurricular enrichment with a broad social support system.

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  • Denver's unified school enrollments may offer Boston a lesson

    The one-stop shopping for public, magnet, charter and innovations schools has proved popular in Coloroda but generated controversy in Massachusetts.

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  • Cuba's Focus on Preventive Medicine Pays Off

    Cuba’s emphasis on public health, primary care, and training thousands of medical professionals has resulted in health successes and lessons for other countries.

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  • How to Teach Kids Empathy Through Dance

    Dancing promotes strong social-emotional development. In areas of Los Angeles where arts education has disappeared due to cuts in school funding, a New York-based non-profit organization has stepped in to teach kids to dance. The program, launched in Los Angeles County, brings dance to socio-economically disadvantaged students, growing to include hundreds of middle school and high school students. Cognitive benefits for students go beyond improved respect, teamwork, and cooperative skills observed in the classroom; dancing provides a therapeutic outlet for children in difficult circumstances.

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  • Ethnic studies classes in S.F. surprisingly successful

    Stanford University researchers found that at-risk students who enrolled in a ninth-grade ethnic studies class saw significant improvements in performance and attendance compared to their peers who were not enrolled. Reporter Jill Tucker writes, "the academic benefits of the course were so significant, the researchers who conducted the Stanford study said they were shocked by their own findings." The research could have major implications for the education of San Francisco's predominantly non-white public school population.

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  • The Importance of High-School Mentors

    When it comes to helping young people succeed, education experts and nonprofits are embracing the idea that a broad web of formal and informal role models is key.

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