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CAL Elementary offers two years of publicly supported preschool, while Dows provides space for a private preschool in its building. This early experience gives the students a jump start. "Kids need to feel comfortable in school, or they're not going to learn very well," says CAL Elementary principal Brian...
A few minutes into third period on a recent morning, four pastors of different denominations have packed into child-size chairs in the computer lab at Hand Middle School in Columbia, S.C. They bow their heads and close their eyes, and with 25 computer monitors purring in the background, the...
Since Towns adopted e-learning in 1998, its middle-schoolers' scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills have risen nine percentile points. Attendance has improved, and disciplinary referrals to the principal's office are down by more than half. State assessments of their writing show Towns' eighth-graders scoring...
Middle-school principal Stephen Smith, 53, initially wanted laptops just for teachers. But the teachers urged him to find ways to buy computers for students as well. The federally funded Appalachian Regional Commission contributed nearly 80% of the $500,000 cost of wiring the middle school. Smith raised the rest...
Every parent of a schoolchild is familiar with the counter. It's that imposing bit of architecture in the main office that many administrators use to keep parents at bay. "I hated that thing," says Steve Constantino. So when he became principal of Stonewall Jackson High School in Manassas, Va...