Topic: Education
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How to Resurrect an Urban School District
Cincinnati has improved students' test scores by fostering cooperation between teachers, administrators, and local community service organizations.
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Putting Inner City Students on a Path to High-Paying Jobs, For Real
How and why Citizen Schools' "apprenticeships" are working.
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Can a 'Moneyball' Approach Turn Around New Orleans Schools?
Scores are rising as teachers track data and look for patterns to improve classroom learning.
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The Big Fix
After the School Closings, the Real Estate Mess
As school districts downsize, they leave behind shuttered buildings. Finding new uses for them can be difficult, to say the least.
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Charts
Do School Districts Matter?
According to a new study, their quality has little effect on student performance.
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Maps
The End of Private Schools?
Enrollment is declining, and charter schools are the most likely culprit.
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Charts
The Sequester Is Hitting the Country's Neediest Students the Hardest
Children from poor families and special needs kids are disproportionately impacted by the cuts.
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Postcard
Inside a Hindu Widow Community
Roughly 100 miles from New Delhi, widowed women live together in the Meera Sahavagini ashram.
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Charts
Is There a Link Between Walkability and Local School Performance?
Some early attempts to map the question in D.C. suggest that there might be. But what does the correlation tell us?
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Providence Wins Mayors Challenge Prize for Early Childhood Project
The $9 million Bloomberg Philanthropies contest also awards innovations from Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia and Santa Monica.
