Jennifer Dubin

The School Development Program focuses on improving relationships among the adults in schools so they can foster academic achievement and support student development.

Core Knowledge shows that students in kindergarten through second grade are fully capable of—and benefit from—acquiring both decoding skills and content knowledge at the same time.

Even in its residential centers, Missouri treats juvenile offenders as students, not criminals. Much like a well-run school, every minute is structured.

Each summer, Art with a Heart hires about 40 young people to make marketable art—tables and chairs, jewelry, and lamps, among other pieces—which they then sell at Artscape, an annual summer arts festival in Baltimore.

Many Perth Amboy children benefit from a curriculum that introduces letters and numbers, builds their vocabularies, hones their listening and social skills, and gives them the background knowledge they need to be prepared for school.

Before lesson study, teachers didn’t really collaborate on improving instruction.

A national nonprofit, Communities in Schools tries to eliminate the myriad barriers that contribute to students dropping out of school.

District and union leaders in ABC believe they can do more for their students if they work together.

Since Richmond Public Schools started to focus on research-based reading instruction eight years ago, the reading scores of its students on state assessments have climbed substantially.