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Author: Pola Lem

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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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The work of a school counselor, guiding students from high school through life

May 8, 2015May 13, 2015 - by Pola Lem

Counselor Vincent Lumetta at World Journalism Preparatory School in Flushing has guided more than 800 students through the ever complex college application process.

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The Graduation Gap from High School through College

April 25, 2015May 11, 2015 - by Pola Lem

Low-income students might face greater challenges adjusting to college than their more affluent peers, so some charter networks are paying attention to their high school graduates through college.

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Should High School Students Be Shown Porn to Learn About Sex?

April 16, 2015April 16, 2015 - by Pola Lem

Vice News’s Miriam Wells writes about one possible way of educating students about sex: “Pornography — or even erotic literature — is an excellent vehicle for critical discussion about the difference …

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Book Review: Building A Better Teacher by Elizabeth Green

April 15, 2015March 25, 2020 - by Pola Lem

Imagine you’re given several years of pedagogical study (or several weeks of training, as the case may be). Then you are thrown into a dunk tank, a classroom full of …

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Where Kids Learn More Outside Their Classrooms Than in Them

April 15, 2015 - by Pola Lem

In this article for The Atlantic Emily Richmond describes extended learning programs in New Hampshire, where non-traditional forms of learning are on the rise. Amid the growing push to reinvent the …

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An Arc of Outrage: Despite the clamor, the real conversation about campus sexual assault has hardly begun

April 14, 2015 - by Pola Lem

Sara Lipka of The Chronicle of Higher Education describes the history of sexual assault on college campuses and the institutional change that has been slow to follow: Talk and action …

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