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Community Schools: A Model for the Middle Grades
By Josefina Alvarado-Mena, Chris Brown, Nicole Johnson, & Frank Mirabal Expanding the number of community schools is no longer a goal that can be left on the periphery of school reform. No academic standards, tests, or school-based interventions will ever be able to completely mitigate…
Author: Education Week
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Elev8 Wins Department of Education Award
On Monday, October 15, at an event held in Washington, the U.S. Department of Education and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) recognized Elev8 programs in Baltimore and Chicago as Together for Tomorrow School Improvement Champions. Elev8 was one of 24 initiatives named…
Author: Elev8
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The search for meaning
Retirees seek fulfillment — and pay — by pursuing renewed interests by Tanika White When he started at Maryland State College in 1962, Daniel Maddox envisioned a career working with young people, preferably in physical education. But as often happens, life got in the way,…
Author: Chicago Tribune
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Md. death penalty commission holds 2nd hearing
Original Source By BRIAN WITTE, The Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The daughter of a murdered elderly couple told a commission studying Maryland’s death penalty on Tuesday to fix flaws in capital punishment – not to repeal it – while critics argued that capital cases…
Author: Associated Press
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Philanthropy's Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline
By Kavitha Mediratta Last year, at the beginning of ninth grade, my son’s friend Emmanuel was suspended from school for bringing a brick to class. Emmanuel had found the brick in the schoolyard, and with the satirical wit of a 14-year-old, named it “Softie” and…
Author: American Educator
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Schools Must Abandon Zero-Tolerance Discipline
By Kavitha Mediratta In 2007, the high school graduation rate in Baltimore, a city where the school system serves 85,000 mostly African-American and low-income students, was an abysmal 34 percent. Then Andrés A. Alonso, the chief executive for the city’s schools, took action. He revised the…
Author: Education Week
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Elev8 Youth Speak for Themselves on Capitol Hill
On April 22, students from 20 Elev8 middle schools across the country filed into legislative office buildings surrounding the nation’s capitol, nervous but prepared to speak out on issues they had selected themselves, including school safety and funding for afterschool programs. The visit to Capitol…
Author: Elev8
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Death Penalty Debate Likely Still On Despite Panel
A Maryland Senate committee narrowly rejected Gov. Martin O’Malley’s bill yesterday to repeal the death penalty, but the measure will likely be debated by the full Senate next week under a rare procedural move. The vote by the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee was seen as…
Author: The Washington Post
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Congressman Crowley visits Allerton school
Original Source by Amanda Marinaccio The students of P.S. 89 received a special treat on Monday, January 12, as Congressman Joseph Crowley paid a visit to read the students’ letters to President elect Barack Obama, made possible through the Building Educated Leaders for Life program. BELL is…
Author: Bronx Times
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Nursing and Dental Faculty and Students Engage in Oakland School-Based Clinics
Karen Duderstadt with students at James Madison Middle School (photo by Elisabeth Fall) By Martha Ross Two eighth-graders come running into the health clinic at James Madison Middle School in East Oakland. The boys have an emergency of sorts. They want to know if they can borrow…
Author: UCSF Science of Caring
