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The Christian Science Monitor

Charter schools’ biggest crisis: A place to call home

By Mary Wiltenburg.  This article originally appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, March 9, 2009 The school is bursting at the seams. Desks are packed so tightly in trailer classrooms that a fourth-grader at the International Community School (ICS) can scarcely slip out for a drink of water without knocking into someone. Fifth- and sixth-graders are on a separate campus, seven miles from their siblings in kindergarten through fourth. Some … Continue reading Charter schools’ biggest crisis: A place to call home

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The Christian Science Monitor

Third-grade math: a teacher’s calculus

By Mary Wiltenburg.  This article originally appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, February 10, 2009 Some of her kids can multiply dozens; some are still adding on their fingers. Some, by Georgia standards, are failing third grade math. But today, whatever Ann Griffith’s students know about division, they’re fired up about it. A dozen 8-to-10-year-olds sit cross-legged on the carpet of her trailer classroom, around … Continue reading Third-grade math: a teacher’s calculus

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