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Students Venture to Washington for Wilderness Tour 
Joanna Santos, a newly minted 8th grader at Boston Collegiate Charter School, was openly nervous about the idea of backpacking, going without a shower for four days, and being without her closest friends when she stepped onto an airplane bound from Boston to Seattle in June. Despite this reluctance, however, Joanna had demonstrated tremendous promise...
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New Collegiate Middle School Blends Joy with Rigor  If, at 6:30 in the morning, you happened to catch the B52 bus running along Gates Avenue in Brooklyn, you might be fortunate enough to feel the morning buzz of six people who are changing the lives of 81 children in Bedford Stuyvesant. They spend at least 12 hours each day together, designing effective strategies to lead their students to become college graduates. Click here to read more...
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A Socratic Approach: Using Questioning to Raise Student Engagement and Achievement in Math  "For two positive numbers, if x is greater than y, then the absolute value of x is going to be greater than the absolute value of y, because x is farther away from zero. The absolute value of - x is the same..." Reading this, one would likely assume that a teacher was lecturing to his students... Click here to read more... |
