February 26, 1997

Education Week, Vol. 16, Issue 22
Education Community Resources
Public and private agencies in St. Paul, Minn., are joining forces to provide low-income children with several services under one roof in so-called Achievement Plus schools.
Linda Jacobson, February 26, 1997
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Education Lost Youths
As more families move to the suburbs, the southeast Baltimore area has been losing its population of school-age children. That decrease has been felt in all of the area's Roman Catholic elementary schools.
February 26, 1997
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School Choice & Charters Keeping the Faith
Susan Round is squeezing in a few extra minutes of a lesson on homonyms before her 2nd grade class breaks for lunch on a Friday afternoon at the pre-K-3 Bishop McVinney Regional School in Providence.
Jeff Archer, February 26, 1997
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School & District Management Urban Schools Group To Unveil 'Marshall Plan' Next Month
Hoping to ease the plight of big-city school systems, the Council of the Great City Schools plans to unveil an "Urban Education Marshall Plan" next month.
Caroline Hendrie, February 26, 1997
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Reading & Literacy Effectiveness of Clinton Reading Plan Questioned
At first glance, educators say, it is a grand plan: Mobilize a "citizen army" of college students, parents, senior citizens, and other do-gooders, and march them into schools around the nation to help all children read by the end of 3rd grade.
Kathleen Kennedy Manzo & Joetta L. Sack, February 26, 1997
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Education Without Abandonment
A few blocks made a world of difference when Angela Rebbert was growing up in southeast Baltimore in the early 1960s.
Jeff Archer, February 26, 1997
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School Choice & Charters Opinion Horizon Alternative School: Why Promising Reforms Disappear
In the winter of 1979, the Johnson Foundation invited an unusual group of educator to its Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wis.
Robert B. Amenta, February 26, 1997
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School & District Management Opinion What's a Superintendent To Do?
Being the superintendent of a major urban school district has never been an easy job.
Tim Deroche, February 26, 1997
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Education Opinion The SAT and 'Talent Identification'
Last month, tens of thousands of 12-year-olds sat next to high school juniors and seniors in classrooms and gymnasiums across the country and took the SAT.
Pamela George, February 26, 1997
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School Choice & Charters Opinion The Paideia Movement: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
In Mentor, Ohio, the parents of Brentmoor Elementary School children meet on a February evening to participate in a seminar on the music and lyrics of "The Phantom of the Opera."
Terry Roberts, February 26, 1997
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Education Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor

Early Reading Intervention And Special Education's Woes

February 26, 1997
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