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Georgia has said it wants to apply for the Every Student Succeeds Act's Innovative Assessment pilot. Applications aren't technically due until December for the next round of the pilot, but the Peach State has flagged its interest early.
Tracey Smith, principal of Brookwood Elementary School in Georgia, shared with eSchool News her strategies for helping teachers take ownership of their work and helping students take control of their learning by creating a more positive learning culture.
Efforts to improve poor-performing Atlanta schools have led to big changes in classrooms, shifts that are as much about trying to create a new culture as they are about new teachers.
New freshmen at Morehouse College got to know an unusual neighbor during orientation: David A. Thomas, president of the historically black men’s institution in Atlanta. For two nights, he slept in Room 116 of Graves Hall, a dormitory.
Spelman College and the Ford Motor Company Fund on Tuesday announced a partnership to help more of the college’s first-generation students complete school.
To Duvall, it’s even more important to improve the climate of a school with overcrowded classrooms. “It is about modeling accountable talk,” she says. “It is putting [social-emotional learning practices] in place—whether you have a class of one or a class of 41.”
A group of professors, educators and nonprofit representatives recently met in Las Vegas to plan how parents, students and community members can work together to lower the dropout rate among Latinos and encourage them to graduate.
Summarizes the key findings from the Improving Outcomes for Youth: A Statewide Juvenile Justice Initiative (IOYouth) process in Nevada that resulted from the CSG Justice Center’s comprehensive assessment of Nevada’s juvenile justice system. Nevada was the first state selected to participate in IOYouth and will continue to receive guidance from the CSG Justice Center to implement the new policies and track implementation progress as well as youth