Articles filed under Generations at Risk
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Link between poverty, test scores continuesOct 31, 2016 1:00 am -
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Challenged schools like East Aurora find a payoff in innovationMay 24, 2016 5:15 am - By middle school, Vincent Delao was hanging out with the wrong crowd. He was skipping school more often than he went; his report card was straight D's. None of the men i...
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Two students, one dream: Graduation not a sure thing at schools like East AuroraMay 23, 2016 1:00 am - Hundreds of seniors file into the auditorium at East Aurora High School. They gaze at the stage filled with objects from high school's biggest prize - caps, gowns and em...
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How the odds are stacked against East Aurora studentsMay 22, 2016 7:30 am - The bell rings and nearly 4,000 East Aurora High School students burst all at once into the narrow halls. With exactly six minutes to get to the next class, they race up...
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Editorial: Future of education in the suburbs must embrace those at-riskDec 28, 2015 10:00 pm - One of the things we learned about schools in 2015 is just how much poverty is an accurate indicator of student academic performance. When we tie that to the increased n...
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Editorial: Schools can't get sidetracked by PARCC flawsDec 12, 2015 1:00 pm - Consider this comparison senior staff writer Melissa Silverberg dug out of the latest school report card data: In Palatine Township Elementary District 15, the school th...
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Poor suburban students struggle even more on PARCCDec 10, 2015 12:00 am -
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Editorial: Internet initiative a step to boost students in needSep 02, 2015 1:00 am - Can you imagine your child not having instant access to the Internet to do his or her homework today? It would be like trying to nail two boards together without using a...
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Editorial: For Generations at Risk, 'iTunes U' offers education equalityAug 19, 2015 11:00 pm - In the series of stories the Daily Herald published last June under the heading Generations at Risk, 10 years' worth of numbers showed a distinct correlation between low...
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Editorial: The will needed for our schools to meet Our Promise to Our KidsJun 25, 2015 11:00 pm - In our Monday editorial launching this series of commentaries, we attempted to encourage the public will to meet the high stakes involved in making school successful for...
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