While editing Pouya Dianat’s take for a story on the drop in Prepre-K per-pupil spending, one photo stood out above the rest. Simultaneously playful and serious, the image puts the viewer in the middle of a moment as it unfolds.
Photographer Nathan W. Armes spent a day with Deondre Davis, 17, documenting his transition back to school and home life after a six-month stay at Wyoming Boys School, the state’s most restrictive juvenile correctional facility. Mr. Davis is on track to graduate from high school this May, but most ex-offenders face barriers that make it difficult for a positive re-entry.
Nearly every state has signed on to use the Common Core State Standards as a framework for teaching English/language arts and mathematics to students. Translating them for the classroom, however, requires schools, teachers, and students to change the way they approach teaching and learning. Photographers Pat McDonogh, Stephen Voss, and Brian Widdis documented the ways schools in Kentucky, Maryland, and Michigan are adopting these new standards in their curriculum.
Photographer Emile Wamsteker had no trouble finding a character to focus on for a story about a group of actors and improv comedians who inspire students to write creatively by giving them a sense of purpose beyond school.
“Please, don’t say we’re just poor white trash,” requests one teacher on my first day at Iaeger Elementary School in Iaeger, W. Va. Tired of one-dimensional media portrayals, the citizens of McDowell County have been burned before.
Passion and strength inspire first-year teacher, Andrew Hurst, in a struggling West Virginia community.
In the 2010-11 school year, four high schools and five middle schools in the 203,000-student Houston school district entered Apollo 20, intended to employ the same classroom strategies and produce the same strong academic results, district leaders hoped, that exist in some of the nation’s top-performing charter schools.
Andrew Spear photographed the Fuchs family for a story on special education voucher programs. Fati Fuchs uses Ohio’s Autism Scholarship Program, created in 2003, to pay for therapy and tutoring for her daughter, Carly, who has autism.
Photographer Ramin Rahimian spent a morning documenting the Head Start program in Richmond, Calif. for a story about new federal rules that require long-time providers to compete anew to stay in business.
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