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For the Children

Photo by Karine Simon/Courtesy of Inner-City Arts Fourth-graders from Charles H. Kim Elementary School take part in a special arts workshop led by renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and ballet star…

Most Likely to Reform

…D.C. public elementary school. She’s shuttered schools that became under-attended as parents fled from the district or stayed away completely. In other words, this 39-year-old has made some enemies. The…

Bizarre Trends in Asia

…full story here. 18) New Elementary Desks “Wuhan City, China has introduced these bars into an elementary school’s first grade classroom. Each bar is drilled into the wooden tables of…

Chasing Dreams

…college students in a mid-sized conference room at UCLA. Earlier that day, he had addressed a group of elementary school students in Los Angeles—now, that was fun. But, here, surrounded…

Head Of The Class

…is limited to three years in a Baltimore inner-city elementary school while involved with Teach for America, a national corps of recent college graduates placed in struggling schools. Labeled everything…