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...promising method is Success for All, a tightly scripted reading program that has spread to 1,551 elementary schools in 48 states. The brainchild of husband-and-wife researchers at Johns Hopkins University more than a decade ago, the program aims to get at-risk kids academically up to speed with 90 minutes of daily intensive reading. The founders specify that 80% of a school's teachers must vote to adopt the program by secret ballot. Once they do, Success for All micromanages everything down to telling teachers to write questions for the class on Post-it notes to themselves...
...those moments last Wednesday night. Somehow the stars aligned, and I closed my eyes and saw an incredibly clear picture of my future. After two and a half years of being most definitely not pre-med, I have decided to be a doctor, to foster the resilience of at-risk kids as a developmental pediatrician in an urban hospital. It felt amazing and so very decisive...
...find myself writing this piece because of my recent forays into the world of education. Last summer I taught at the Summerbridge Miami program, one of a network of programs designed to offer guidance and academic instruction to hundreds of at-risk students in America's cities. My approach to this enthusiastic group of middle school students was influenced by several motives. The most prominent of these impulses were my feelings of optimism and shameless idealism. With this attitude I prepared to take the teaching world (or Summerbridge Miami) by storm...
...their corpuscles. Fearing mad-cow disease, the FDA last week barred anyone who had visited Britain for a total of six months between 1980 and 1996 from donating blood. Many stars shot at least four British-based films in that time, which could put them over the limit. The at-risk...
Most retained students never catch up to classmates who went ahead and struggle just to stay afloat among their new, younger set of peers. Karl Alexander, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, studied 800 Baltimore students and found that repeating a year benefited some at-risk students. Yet those retainees "were still just hanging on or barely passing" after they finally advanced. Even the extra assistance Chicago provides its retained students may not be enough. In the early 1980s, after a similar clampdown on social promotion, New York City hired 1,100 new teachers and put all retained kids...