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Summary: SoundOut promotes student voice in school through research, training, and resource-sharing. They work in K-12 schools, with districts and states, as well as education-focused nonprofit organizations to promote student... Read on...
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Summary: The Strive Partnership is focused on the success of our children: every child, every step, from cradle to career. The Strive Partnership unites common providers around shared issues, goals, measurements and results, and... Read on...
Professors of the Year: They Put Students in Charge of Learning
Author: Paige ChapmanSummary: This article provides several exemplary ways in which to engage and involve students in their own learning through hands-on activities, field trips, self-directed activity, group work, and supporting multiple approaches... Read on...
The Rigors and Rewards of Internships
Author: Eliot LevineSummary: "By immersing students in works related to their interests, internship programs aim to increase student engagement and promote skills and knowledge needed for achieving life, career, and civic goals." This article... Read on...
Can Teachers Run Their Own Schools?
Author: Charles Taylor Kerchner with the assistance of Laura Steen MulfingerSummary: Through a case study of Avalon High School in Minnesota, this article explores the notion of democratic teacher-run schools where teachers collaboratively make school decisions rather than a single principal. Also... Read on...