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Learning to Behave: One School Cuts Suspensions Using Empathy

April 25, 2016March 25, 2020 - by Cassie Giraldo

Teachers at a Brooklyn 6th through 12th grade school believe students lack the skill, not the will to behave. A new approach to discipline brought its suspension rate down from 23 to 2 percent in 4 years.

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A Tale of Two Fundraisers

April 9, 2016March 15, 2020 - by Aleksandra Konstantinovic

The city’s inequality gap was on display this week at two public high school fundraisers. Stuyvesant High School parents intended to raise $80,000; students and teachers at Queens High School for Research, Information and Technology were hoping for $2,000.

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The End of the Beginning

April 8, 2016March 15, 2020 - by Lisa Herndon

Kiasia Truluck recalled the profound impact Brooklyn’s Beginning with Children Charter School had on her professional life. One of the city’s first charter schools is scheduled to close by the end of the year.

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Beyond the Test Scores at the Harlem Children’s Zone

April 5, 2016May 24, 2016 - by Anjali Tsui

When the Harlem Children’s Zone opened a charter school in a housing project, it set out to raise test scores. While grades haven’t improved dramatically, the school has helped to create a community and is slowly changing the culture of the neighborhood.

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A Class That Loops Together, Learns Together

March 31, 2016March 15, 2020 - by Jamie Martines

Looping is when teachers stay with the same class of students for more than one year. At Brownsville’s P.S. 446, teachers say it works well for maintaining discipline, and it’s even better for helping them improve as teachers.

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Building a Student Movement One Paint Stroke at a Time

March 28, 2016April 26, 2016 - by Cassie Giraldo

A “Students Not Scanners” movement at Park Slope Collegiate begins with a student-made mural, and a dose of outrage.

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Building a Robot, Building a School

March 24, 2016April 26, 2016 - by Prarthana Jayaram

Brooklyn’s unique science-based P-TECH high school builds robots the same way it builds its school, with a big dose of creative innovation.

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In Their Own Words: The volatile world of high school admissions, round two

March 18, 2016April 26, 2016 - by Cassie Giraldo

Covering Education students speak to middle school students who did not get into their first choice high school for next year. Some heartbreaks, some hope. Read the story in Chalkbeat.org

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Big Gender Gap Persists in Arts Schools, and Math and Science Schools. Why?

June 9, 2015June 11, 2015 - by Pola Lem

Boys still outnumber girls in math and science specialty schools by a wide-margin, despite the city’s programs meant to attract girls. Girls, on the other hand, vastly outnumber boys in arts and culture specialty schools. Why doesn’t this ever change?

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Building a Village to Raise a Student

May 29, 2015June 7, 2015 - by Chia Lun Huang

High School advisories help teachers and students forge relationships valuable to success in school, and in life.

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