A dangerous neighborhood prompts a pre-school program to build something really big. It’s hard to learn in Austin, Chicago’s largest neighborhood. Austin is thick with barriers—poverty, domestic abuse, street violence. In fact, it’s so hard to attend classes and stay...
As it reopens to in-person learning, Vertus High School chooses a Word of the Year Vertus High School in Rochester, New York, was never fully remote during the pandemic year. Half the students whose families agreed to a hybrid model had in-person learning Monday and...
In the age of COVID, Cristo Rey’s tuition-free schools face more challenges than most For Elizabeth Goettl, CEO of the Cristo Rey Network, the COVID pandemic is raising tough questions. She’s facing the operational questions most educators are facing—How do you social...
Low-income kids reach unexpected heights Sergio Panelo has been an educator for 14 years in the Mapleton school district outside of Denver, where 68 percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunches. More than 40 percent are second-language learners. Few...
When a town unites, their children thrive At first glance, the graduation rate looked average—70 percent. But when the town of Geneva, New York, looked closer, the numbers were upsetting. Learning disabled children were graduating at 37 percent, children of color at...
A children’s garden of achievements, tended with care and ambition Every year the students of Hope Hall School bury their fears—literally. Each writes down one thing she thinks she can’t do—for example, make friends or master subtraction—and places it in a hole where...
