Results List
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Mid-Point Findings of National Evaluation Show Effectiveness of CIS Model
Original Source The first results to emerge from the Communities In Schools National Evaluation, an independent, third-party study, indicate that the CIS Model of integrated student services has a positive impact on school-wide outcomes. Based on an in-depth analysis of 1,766 CIS schools and comparative analysis of…
Author: Communities In Schools
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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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Rethinking School Discipline for Better Opportunities
By Kavitha Mediratta Zero tolerance school discipline policies leave young men of color most vulnerable — but it doesn’t have to be that way. All young people should have the opportunity to succeed. It’s a fundamentally American argument, and also the core value of the…
Author: Huffington Post
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Empty Nest Cure: Texas Mother Finds Meaning as a Mentor
Original Source By SUE SHELLENBARGER After children leave home, many parents with empty nests must search hard for new pursuits to give their lives meaning. After Pat Rosenberg’s two daughters left for college, Ms. Rosenberg, 61, a longtime volunteer in the Houston public schools, found…
Author: The Wall Street Journal