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A Brooklyn High School with a History of Chronic Absenteeism Adapts to New Attendance Issues

May 15, 2020May 22, 2020 - by Kyra Senese

While teachers and students scrambled to adjust to virtual learning in the immediate aftermath of the coronavirus all-school shut down, long-term goals — like corralling runaway attendance rates — for …

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Homeless Children’s Needs Lost Along the Way to School

July 22, 2018March 28, 2020 - by Yeong-Ung Yang

The city shelter system does little to interrupt the chaos and disruption for homeless public school children

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Ready for School, Nowhere to Go

May 5, 2016March 25, 2020 - by Jamie Martines

The benefits of good after-school programs are well known for those kids whose parents aren’t yet home from work. But at many schools like Brownsville’s P.S. 446, before-school programs are needed too.

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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 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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New Language Classes for Kids Teach Swahili and Culture of African Diaspora

February 11, 2016February 11, 2016 - by Jamie Martines

A new course offered by a Brooklyn cultural learning center is hoping to help build a “cultural foundation” for children by teaching toddlers Swahili and languages of the African Diaspora. …

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Brooklyn Schools Struggle to Maintain Racial Balance in Rapidly Gentrifying Neighborhoods

May 18, 2015June 13, 2015 - by Stephanie Ortigoza

Four schools in Brooklyn’s rapidly gentrifying District 13 enroll significantly more white students than their counterparts. Why is that happening?

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One Brooklyn School’s Quest to Find an Alternative to Suspensions

April 15, 2015April 25, 2015 - by Arianna Skibell

The DIG at Lyons Community High School is the staff’s latest attempt to provide students in need with a safe space where they can, at the very least, develop stronger social skills and stabilize enough to return to regular classes.

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Humans of New York blog raises $1 million for Brooklyn middle school

February 4, 2015February 8, 2015 - by Jennifer Luna

Humans of New York, a popular photography blog, featured a 13-year-old boy from Mott Haven Bridges Academy in Brownsville saying his principal was the most influential person in his life. An …

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