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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Studies in districts like Los Angeles Unified have found that students who passed Algebra I by 9th grade are twice as likely to graduate as those who did not. Their Latino peers comprised 25 percent of students in schools that offered Algebra I in eighth grade, but just 18 percent of the students enrolled. Source: U.S.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

As it turned out, Kevin was mostly non-verbal with emotional and learning disabilities. Sure, centers in elementary school made sense, but I wasn’t quite certain at first whether a middle school biology class could pull it off. After two weeks, it was time to collect and grade the portfolios.

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MARCH 27, 2017

I was diagnosed in 5th grade. That's when my parents formally knew that I had a learning difference, but we've kind of always known that something's been up since I was born. There were complications in my birth, and so they've kind of always known, but it wasn't formally a learning disability until about 4th or 5th grade.

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APRIL 23, 2019

our 165-student school provides therapeutic programs and other related services in conjunction with academics to help students reach their full potential, not just academically, but socially and emotionally as well. So, What’s Alternative About Our School? Situated atop a 260-acre campus in Marlboro, N.J.,

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MAY 2, 2018

When I was in middle school, I was diagnosed with a learning disability, so the “typical” school experience was always a challenge for me. School often left me feeling inadequate. One of my locations, Bozeman Field School, is in its inaugural year as the only independent high school in Bozeman.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The researcher would not disclose which middle school she worked with to conduct the research. Instead, Martinez explained that to carry out the pilot, she worked with the school’s principal, social worker and counselor to select 20 8th graders who had the most office referrals for their grade level.

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APRIL 2, 2018

Carl Brownlee, middle school teacher Here’s a popular movie plot: Great teacher goes into a troubled neighborhood and turns around a low-performing school. In fact, in a broken district such as Detroit’s, schools in hard-bitten neighborhoods sometimes go from “turnarounds” to closure.

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