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More Beat-the-odds schools
February 01, 2012 by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 06:36 AM
Yesterday, I promised more examples of schools that succeed with low-socioeconomic students. When I googled no-excuses schools, I turned up lots of examples in the US. Here’s a site that leads to lots of such schools. And here’s Marva Collins, a Marvallous educator who has been doing it for more than 45 years - proving that there’s nothing new under the sun. Lastly, just to show the phenomenon isn’t confined to the US, here’s a link to a school in England that has been lifting up its mostly-immigrant, mostly-ESL, mostly-impoverished students for more than 10 years. I don’t know of any current examples of Canadian no-excuses schools (although I’m sure they exist), but I found an article in our archives that is relevant.