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How Educational Opportunity Programs graduate first-generation college students
A wildly successful boot camp combines tough academics, strict rules and minimal sleep
Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers
A struggling West Virginia district sends teachers to students’ homes to help them get to college
New report underscores education problems in institutions for foster youth
Advocacy groups call for Pennsylvania state government to step up oversight of residential facilities
COLUMN: Charter school leaders should talk more about racism
Praising charters for “doing more with less” ignores how racist systems have devalued black communities, starving kids in both traditional and charter schools of resources
The big jobs of small-town principals
Rural school leaders have some of the most complex roles in education — and some of the highest attrition
In San Antonio, school integration may not lift all boats
One of the most economically segregated cities in the countries is trying integration to compete with charters and other school districts, but some schools in the poorest areas aren’t benefitting
From foster care to college
Western Michigan University is one of several colleges that have started programs to help foster youth earn degrees
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COLUMN: Remembering former NYC Schools Chancellor Harold Levy: A champion for children and a real mensch
Levy did many things in life, but most loved being chancellor
‘A child is not a revolving door’
A South Bronx school started by a child welfare agency has gradually found answers for educating youth in foster care
Alaska Native students pursue STEM, with great success
Pushing back against stereotypes, students in the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program outperform students of all backgrounds in math and science