Slideshow: An All-Girls School in Dallas

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Nancy Bernardino, the principal of Solar Preparatory School for Girls, discusses her school's focus on preparing girls for careers in science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math.

Walking in a Student's Shoes

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The Shadow a Student Challenge encourages school leaders to spend a day walking in a students' shoes. Assistant principal Karen Ritter followed a 9th grader through all of his classes. What did she learn? (August 11, 2016)

A First-Generation College-Goer Samples Campus Life

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Betty Torres, a rising high school senior in the small Texas town of Mission, studied over the summer on a college campus, an experience that helped her imagine her academic future beyond high school.

Bettina Love: On Black Girls, Discipline, and Schools

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The schools attended by African-American girls who live in poverty are often low-performing and too focused on discipline, explains researcher Bettina L. Love. (June 2, 2016)

Andrew's Journal: A Cross-Country Trip to Build Student Voice

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College student Andrew Brennen has been traveling the country this year in an effort to persuade K-12 students to lend their own voices to the debate about the future of education. (May 31, 2016)

Getting Students' Names Right: Why It Matters

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Students at Downtown College Prep Alum Rock High School in San Jose, Calif., describe how their names get mispronounced and misspelled in school. (May 9, 2016)

L.A.s' Schools Struggle to Integrate Special Education Students

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This report on special education in Los Angeles looks at the district's current focus on inclusion. Is moving special needs students into neighborhood schools and classrooms a sign of progress, or a cause for concern? (March 23, 2016)

Bringing Play Back to Kindergarten Classrooms –2016 Leader to Learn From

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Steve Oates has been leading an initiative to bring play back to kindergarten classrooms in the North Carolina's Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school district. (February 24, 2016)

Blunting the Impact of Poverty With Community Schools – 2016 Leaders to Learn From

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Rather than waiting to see if job losses and higher housing costs would impact schools in Vancouver, Wash., district leaders set out in 2008 to create an “opportunity zone” where schools would focus on addressing poverty. (February 24, 2016)

An Immigrant Student in America: Finding a College

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Ayat Husseini is facing a challenge that many immigrant students across the United States share. She longs to venture out of state, to live on a leafy campus and experience everything college life has to offer, but her father is dead set against it.

A Lesson in Humanity: Children's Diaries of the Holocaust

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Alexandra Zapruder, author of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust, discusses how children's accounts of the genocide serve as a powerful reminder of the dehumanizing effects of racism, bias, and prejudice. (October 27, 2015)