D.C. schools with a significant share of struggling students are receiving an infusion of money, part of a campaign to bridge achievement gaps in the District.

The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority led Saturday's workshop which included guests who dealt with their own issues growing up and also gave kids an opportunity to think about the issue and develop their own public service announcements about the issues.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Georgetown University President John DeGioia and Patricia Bayonne-Johnson, a descendant of two slaves sold in 1838. The school benefited from that sale.

School’s out, temperatures are rising, and, for many students across the country, the summer slide has begun. Each summer, low-income students lose two to three months of reading skills and two months of math skills. As the center director for an after school and summer academic program for middle school students in Washington, D.C.’s historically underserved neighborhood of Anacostia, I see these statistics firsthand every day.

Like a growing number of schools nationwide, Houston Elementary in Northeast Washington is using mindfulness and other therapies to help children manage the stress they encounter in their daily lives.

While turf wars are being waged between traditional public schools and charter schools across the nation, the District of Columbia is leading the way showing how they can collaborate to avoid the internal strife that unnecessarily pits schools against one another instead of doing what’s best for their students.