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Dr. George P. White, Director, Center for Developing Urban Educational Leaders
The director of the College of Education’s Center for Developing Urban Educational Leaders reflects on the opportunities for children in south Bethlehem, Pa., who benefit from the Community Schools Initiative. “A community school is more than a place—it is... Read more »
Donegan Elementary School celebrated its inauguration as a COMPASS Community School this Wednesday. The COMPASS Community School program aims to take a more holistic approach to teaching than traditional schools, according to school principal Sonia Vasquez. She said the program helps kids grow through teaching them to work in a group and... Read more »
Mia* is in fourth grade. Sometimes, a girl in her class, Sophie, would make fun of her. Then one day, Sophie brought invitations to her birthday party to school. She handed them out to everyone in her class. Everyone, that is, except for Mia.
Every day for what seemed like weeks, Mia watched as the girls sat together at lunch and played... Read more »
This spring, 18 Lehigh University professors from six departments spanning three colleges took a field trip to the center of shale gas mining in Pennsylvania, one of America’s shale gas hotspots. First they visited a well pad in Bradford County, which leads the state in issuing permits for extracting shale gas with blasts of chemicals, sand and... Read more »
In a recent episode of “The Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart asked U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, “What’s going on with No Child Left Behind?”
“No Child Left Behind,” the secretary declared, “is broken.”
His abrupt epitaph for the G.W. Bush-era legislation strikes one as a bit paradoxical given that No Child Left Behind... Read more »