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fromBoston.com
1 week ago

Dorchester school to exit state control, 2 others no longer 'underperforming'

UP Academy Holland will exit state receivership and return to local control while Dearborn STEM Academy and Fonseca Elementary lose 'underperforming' designations after academic improvements.
fromCbsnews
3 months ago

How one principal used debate to turn a failing middle school around

At Middle School 50 in Brooklyn, New York, principal Benjamin Honoroff and his students are pumped to start the day - a dramatic transformation from when he came in a decade ago. "We were on a list of persistently dangerous schools, and there'd been some pretty drastic enrollment decline from over a thousand students to 160 students," Honoroff said. But the former high school debate coach had an idea. He took a chance and integrated into every class, across all grade levels.
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