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Building a Thriving Community of Latinx Educators in a City with Fewer than 1% of Them

In Kansas City, Missouri, like in much of the country, the teaching profession is not as diverse as it should be. For every 200 Latinx students in the Kansas City area, there is only 1 Latinx teacher.  Edgar Palacios founded…
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News Release – NewSchools Ignite Announces “Middle School & High School Math Challenge”

NewSchools Ignite, an initiative of NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit venture philanthropy firm, is now accepting applications for its Middle and H
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More video: supercharging student achievement

In this final set of videos from the NewSchools Summit 2010, speakers at the
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Teaching as Entrepreneurship?

Over lunch at the NewSchools Community of Practice event this afternoon, Teach For America’s Steven Farr, author of <a href="http://www.teachingasl
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Object lessons in political savvy

Yesterday, I woke up to the latest in a series of object lessons in political savvy for education entrepreneurs. My alarm clock radio is set to NPR, and this morning, I hazed into consciousness listening to a terrific piece by…
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