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At Risk Kids: A Road Map to Intervention
Summary: Children of poverty often need more intensive services to succeed in school; a blueprint for doing so out of the University of Oregon School of Education merits a review.
Design Thinking and What At Risk Kids Need
Summary: Design thinking arrives in a big way at IBM to empower employees to work closely with customers to design the next wave of IBM products. Might the same process illuminate the real needs of at risk, under performing kids, … Continue reading
At Risk Youth: The Teacher’s the Thing by Which to Catch the Student Being
Summary: Meta-studies of psychotherapeutic outcomes, transposed onto relationships between teacher and student, suggest a preponderance of any change in an at risk kid’s academics stems directly from a positive relationship with a teacher. You know the kid. He sits near … Continue reading
Schools and Poverty: The Good News from King County, Washington
Summary: In a flash of progressiveness, the voters of King County (Seattle) have levied themselves a substantial sum to lift children born to poverty, and may yet more fully put their money to their famously progressive mouth. Perhaps it has … Continue reading
Posted in At Risk Students, Schools and Politics
Tagged at risk students, Best Starts for Kids, Dow Constatine, education and politics, education research, foster kids, Harlem Childrens' Zone, Jessyn Farrell, low-income students, parent support, poverty, preschool, school funding, teen clinics
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Schools and Culture: Beyond Separate and Unequal
Summary: Acceleration in the mortality rate among low income white males due to suicide and drug abuse holds a mirror up to a war on drugs which targeted disproportionately the black community. The comparison puts in relief the distance between … Continue reading
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Tagged at risk students, black white relationship, desegregation, education and politics, heroin epidemic, interracial relationships, low-income students, police community relations, resegregation, social communication, teaching, war on drugs
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Charter Schools: Russakov’s The Prize, and Lessons from Newark
Summary: Dale Russakov’s tale of the assault by reformers on Newark Schools is a saga of conflict, righteous myopia, entrenched interests, unintended consequences, upheaval in neighborhoods, grudging progress, and a rending of social fabric; yet in the end no easy … Continue reading
School Suspension Reform and the Real School
Summary: As any reform, change in suspension practices will need to be founded upon staff cohesion and communication, a clearly thought out plan that includes both the mentoring of students and accountability for their actions, and sufficient adult people power … Continue reading
School Reform: Race and Class and Suspension
Summary: Suspension from school for misbehavior has long contributed to chronic school failure particularly for African American and low income students. Alternatives to suspension are cropping up in various locales, many of which seem to intervene with more intensive and … Continue reading
School Reform: Listen Deeply to What Teachers Know
Summary: Recent research identifies truths about kids and pedagogy that have long been embedded in the practice of American educators. Time is long past to act more consistently on teacher insights. The American teacher is targeted from some sectors as … Continue reading
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Tagged Adverse Childhood Experiences, at risk students, education and politics, educational research, empowering teachers, phonetic reading, school reform, teacher knowledge, teacher professionalism, teaching, trauma in students
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At Risk Kids: In-School Suspension Re-Imagined
Summary: With calls to find alternatives to exclusion of disciplined students from school, in-school suspension might serve as a vehicle through which adult staff and mentors can work with suspended students in a constructive fashion. In my mind’s eye I … Continue reading
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Tagged Adverse Childhood Experiences, at risk students, dropouts, failure of suspended students, film Paper Tigers, in-school suspension, James Redford, low-income students, relationships in schools, school funding, school reform, student resilience, suspension from school
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