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Deborah Yaffe

Admin & Management

How to set up new teachers for success

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School systems are getting results from teacher residencies, which offer more immersive and more rigorous training experiences than the typical student-teaching stint.
Health and wellness

Recovery high schools make dent in teen substance abuse

Deborah Yaffe -
Despite research showing that recovery high schools help students stay clean and earn diplomas, the often costly programs remain small-scale and rare.
Health and wellness

Recovery high school students tell their stories

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At their hometown high schools, they were dropouts, bad kids, problems. At home, they lied to their parents, stole from their siblings or sneaked...
Student Success

Gifted and talented diversification reaches for full potential

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Five years ago, the lack of diversification in the gifted and talented program in Minnesota's Mankato Area Public Schools illustrated a nationwide problem. African-American,...
Uncategorized

Gifted and talented strategies to maintain diversity

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Diversifying gifted and talented programs represents only the first step in expanding access, educators say. Districts also must retain those students—and that means ensuring their experiences are positive.
Uncategorized

Gifted and talented program numbers fail to add up

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Look at a graph of the racial and ethnic makeup of the nation's typical gifted and talented program over the past 25 years, and the lines are mostly flat. Whites and Asians remain overrepresented relative to their numbers in the population.
Admin & Management

K12 attendance in action

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Years ago, it was easy for districts to ignore what high average daily-attendance numbers can conceal: kids, sometimes lots of them, who miss weeks...
Admin & Management

Snail mail helps solve attendance problems

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Every school district in the country could reduce student absenteeism by 10 to 15 percent immediately—and it wouldn't even cost that much, Harvard Public...
Admin & Management

Roll-call reversals

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Greene County Career Center (Ohio) Initiative: A truancy interventionist helps students cope with life challenges such as daycare for their children, homelessness and driving parents...
Admin & Management

STEM for small-town schools

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Every spring, Graham Local Schools fourth- and fifth-graders hatch and release trout during a unit that covers aquaponics, hydroponics and conservation. Older students raise...
Curriculum & Instruction

Innovation stations

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A look at some of the STEM projects rural students participate in: Graham Local Schools (Ohio) Trout in the classroom: Fourth- and fifth-graders hatch and release...
Health and wellness

How K12 is outwitting anxiety

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Last fall, a national problem arrived in Superintendent Richard Scaletta's corner of rural northwestern Pennsylvania. Principals in the General McLane School District began reporting unprecedented levels of misbehavior: students in frequent and severe distress, sometimes kicking, biting or throwing things.
Student Success

Schools examine causes of anxiety

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Educators and psychologists propose a host of explanations for the apparent uptick in student anxiety. Some point to public events ‚Á„Á¬ terrorism, school shootings,...
Admin & Management

No more zeros in K12 education

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One education researcher calls it "the academic death penalty": A grade of zero on a 100-point scale, a mark that spells disaster for a...
Admin & Management

Breaking school language barriers

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In southern California's Brawley Union High School District, students newly arrived from Mexico study math and science using a university-developed curriculum written in Spanish. In...
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