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Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2011
A new report proposes academic pathways that would lead some students toward careers rather than college, and that is raising fears among advocates for the disadvantaged. Leaders of the "Pathways to Prosperity" project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education argue for an education system that clearly articulates students' career options as…
Descriptors: Noncollege Bound Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Career Choice, Career Development
Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2009
Two years ago, only 150 students attended Holabird Elementary, then a K-5 school in the southeastern corner of this city. Competition from charters and from regular public schools in nearby Baltimore County had drained families from Holabird, a chronic underperformer. So when Andres A. Alonso, the chief executive officer of the Baltimore city…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Boards of Education, Principals, Urban Schools