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The first morning of the 2005 school year held more than the typical jitters for Toni Kay Scott. One moment, the seventh-grader, known as T.K., was stepping from her mom's Ford pickup to join friends in front of Redwood Middle School in Napa, Calif. Minutes later, the police...
The Napa Valley evokes images of wine and elegant living, but during the mid-1990s gangs roamed local high schools and recruited younger members from places like Redwood Middle School. School officials barred suspected troublemakers from wearing certain colors and flashing signs associated with gangs, and violence dropped. Encouraged, the...
Just as schools were beginning to solve the gang problem, a scarier threat emerged: mass killings like the April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colo. Some teachers and principals began to see potential threats behind all kinds of behavior, provoking free-speech disputes that often landed in...
Collar told residents about principal and teacher internship programs and a reading program that the GSE has in place at Amigos Elementary School in Cambridge, in addition to other programs.
Kids are getting coached as well. At Phillips Academy, Gates talked to students in a program called AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination), a daily class that teaches them how to how to study, read and think more effectively. Sixty freshman have signed a contract to take the class, which targets...