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Under the new Chicago School Reform plan which gives more authority to local schools, school officials are trying to improve Foreman's 40 percent dropout rate and depressed standardized test scores...
More than 100 stores around the country have been paired with local homeless shelters, according to Valerie S. Hennessey, membership services coordinator of the Alliance. Hennessey said that she arranged the pairs by contacting Alliance shelters located near the stores on the list from London...
Education for Action is a resource center at Radcliffe College for Harvard-Radcliffe students interested in social change and local and global issues. E4A has been sponsoring student events and projects for social change since 1966. Daniel Sharfstein '94 Education for Action Student Board
...September 1988, the civil rights advocate charges, to organize East Side White Pride into a more militant street-fighting group. Dees' evidence includes a letter from John Metzger to Portland members that says Mazzella is coming "to show you how we operate." Dees charges that Mazzella promptly led the local racists out to beat up black and Hispanic victims...
Home-school curriculum standards are even more elastic. Study programs usually are approved by local school boards, whose competence in the area may be minimal. In some cases, parents must submit detailed outlines of proposed courses. In others, school boards adopt a laissez-faire approach that takes on faith the commitment and competence of the parent-instructors...