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A group started by former Teach For America members helps novices navigate the cultural and instructional challenges they face in the city's schools. (April 19, 2013)

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Policymakers should make supporting struggling students a higher priority than enacting standards for all, John H. Jackson writes.
May 7, 2013 - Education Week
City leaders must make after-school education a priority, a group of mayors and city council members writes.
April 23, 2013 - Education Week
A group started by former Teach For America members helps novices navigate the cultural and instructional challenges they face in the city's schools.
April 19, 2013 - Education Week
Turnarounds generally happen through a series of disciplined improvements, not because of one silver bullet, Amanda Gardner writes.
March 25, 2013 - Education Week
The emergence of new public school options has spurred an exodus of students from many of Philadelphia's neighborhood schools, but residents are fighting to keep them open.
March 6, 2013 - Education Week
A 12-city study finds districts are struggling over what to do with all the schools they are closing down.
February 19, 2013 - Education Week
Some major urban districts are working to establish more consistent standards for expulsion and suspension policies in charter schools.
February 19, 2013 - Education Week
Twenty years after desegregation ended, the mayor wants to change the way students are matched to schools.
February 5, 2013 - Education Week
The Philadelphia School District's plan to close 37 public schools disproportionately affects poor students, minorities, and students with disabilities, according to an analysis.
January 29, 2013 - McClatchy-Tribune
Moving out of a poor neighborhood by itself doesn't boost children's achievement, says new research.
January 15, 2013 - Education Week

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