Topic: Schools
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Technology Alone Won't Save Poor Kids in Struggling Schools
Researchers gave hundreds of computers to California students who didn't have them at home. Nothing changed.
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Powering Ohio Schools With Wind Energy
Building wind turbines isn’t cheap. But it will mean about $100,000 in energy savings each year for two small towns.
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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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How to Make Your Town Into a Bike-to-School Mecca
A contest in Ohio gets 4,000 kids biking more than 52,000 miles, while keeping roughly 57,292 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the air.
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This Week in Bans
Florida County Starts Paddling Students, Again
How else will educators get naughty kids to fall in line?
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How Diverse Schools Could Help Fight the Worst Effects of Gentrification
Done right, they might enable "meaningful social interaction" between a neighborhood's new arrivals and its existing residents.
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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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Are Armed Guards in Schools a Civil Rights Violation?
Instead of funding an armed guard program, the Mississippi legislature should invest in a more holistic approach to discipline.
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5 Unusual Ideas for 'Greening' a School
Visions for sustainable building in the education system courtesy the National Building Museum.
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Is Closing Underperforming Schools Really Good for Students?
Those on both sides of the debate believe they're championing civil rights. But there's no one-size-fits-all solution.
