School System

The Education Revolution

Hernan Vera | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: School Discipline, Minority Education, Education, School System, School Detention, Latino Education, Video, Latino Voices News
Hernan Vera

Latinos are more likely than white students to receive suspensions. Students with disabilities are twice as likely to get these higher forms of punishment. These large differences continue to be found even when researchers compare students of similar backgrounds.

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Proposed D.C. Law Could Make College Applications Mandatory

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Testing, Kwame Brown, College, Washington D.C., City Council, School System, College Applications, Transcripts, Education News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

By: Sayre Quevedo Kwame Brown, Chairman of Washington DC’s City Council, is the youngest chairman in the history of the city. As a result,...

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Schools Exist to Produce People Who are Happy, Empathic, and Effective

Karl Sikkenga | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Community Schools, School System, Schools, Independent Schools, Education System, Healthy Living News
Karl Sikkenga

When members of a school trust each other, and believe in their own power, then the pursuit of happiness becomes suffused into the daily rituals of the community.

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Looking Behind the Stage Set of Cuba's Potemkin's Schools

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cuba, Education in Cuba, School System, Education, Cuban Education, Cuban Schools, World News
Yoani Sanchez

At a school in Cerro, several foreign visitors were coming to donate notebooks and pencils. But something unexpected happened: one of the guests broke the predetermined protocol and asked to use the bathroom.

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