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Stunning surge in graduation rate as Rainier Beach gamble pays off

Claudia Rowe

March 16, 2015 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

After implementing the International Baccalaureate curriculum, graduation rates at Seattle's historically underperforming Rainier Beach High School increased 25 percentage points from 2011 to 2015. In a city whose public schools are known for racial tracking in advanced classes, Rainier's programs are uniquely focused on serving its predominantly minority student body. With funding in jeopardy, in the coming years, Rainer will have to prove the worth of the programming.

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Reaching Math Students One by One

Tina Rosenberg

March 13, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Middle School 88 in Brooklyn is part of a broad evolution in teaching math, employing technology through a non-profit called School for One (Teach for One) to provide each student with a personalized lesson generated and monitored by computers to match their learning level.

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How Would Students Spend the Principal's Money?

Matt Cohen Daniel Schugurensky

March 11, 2015 |

Zócalo Public Square |

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Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

When Bioscience High School put students in charge of a portion of its discretionary budget, nearly the entire student body participated in deciding how to spend the money. The experiment in participatory democracy unfolded so well that the school principal agreed to fund all three of the most popular project proposals, even though the sum slightly exceeded the originally allotted budget.

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Reinventing High School: How Fresno Prepares the Kids in the Middle

Deborah Fallows

March 11, 2015 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

A career high school in Fresno offers 16 tracks ranging from game design to environmental science taught by a team of teachers with work background in the respective fields. Studies have found that students enrolled in the Center for Advanced Research and Technology attended community colleges at higher rates than "demographically-matched" students taking standard high school curriculum.

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Changing the world with new teaching?

Gary Warth

March 06, 2015 |

San Diego Union-Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, La Jolla, California

The idea of changing the world by teaching children how to get along in a classroom might sound broad, overly ambitious and even a little “touchy-feely” to skeptics or traditionalists who question whether schools are straying too far from their mission of education. Teachers who have used it in their classrooms, however, say the program is successful, and researchers who developed the curriculum at National University’s Sanford Education Center say results include improved grades and more time for teaching.

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The Excitement of Learning From Profit and Loss

David Bornstein

March 06, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

500,000 young people drop out of high school each year; they feel disengaged and uninspired; they fail to see how school is relevant in their lives. An educational program called Build makes it possible for low-income students, as part of their high school studies, to work in teams, conceiving, testing, and ultimately operating their own small businesses. In the process, they discover — often to their surprise — their potential to deal with unexpected problems, persist through failure, and create something that the world values.

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Judging Schools Based on Inspections—Not Test Scores

Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

March 04, 2015 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United Kingdom

In England, schools are evaluated by actual visits to schools by a group of professional educators, rather than simply by test scores.

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Make School a Democracy

David L. Kirp

February 28, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Colombia, Armenia

In Colombia, students in classrooms make decisions democratically. The result has been higher rates of student involvement and achievement.

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A Town Where a School Bus Is More Than a Bus

Sam Chaltain

February 27, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Hartsville, South Carolina

There are many other adults beyond teachers who regularly interact with children — and who are often overlooked as potential contributors to the educational mission. Hartsville, South Carolina, uses school bus drivers as a resource and extra set of eyes to observe how students are doing.

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Classroom observers using new tools to make teachers better

John Higgins

February 22, 2015 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Washington

Throughout Washington, administrators have rolled out new preschool teacher evaluation methodology. Called "CLASS", instructors are observed at length and judged on their interactions in categories including emotional, social, and intellectual growth. The model, which moves away from principal evaluation, has been shown to improve both teaching and student performance. Now the state is piloting similar programs in K-12 classes. One researcher writes of the importance of the right assessment tool, “People say that teaching isn’t rocket science and I would argue that it's actually more complicated..."

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