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Liz Willen Dear reader,

A high-poverty elementary school in southwestern Virginia had a problem: student test scores that were among the worst in the state. After a number of improvement efforts failed, a new principal took a chance on an unconventional approach.

What would happen if students and teachers learned new strategies for listening, asking questions and understanding one another’s feelings, all part of an educational trend called social-emotional learning? And how could a new curriculum be trusted, at a time when schools are getting all kinds of pitches for untested programs that have no backing in research?

This week we have the uplifting story ([link removed]) about what happened next, out of Bristol, Virginia, and there are many lessons worth sharing. We’d love to hear about other schools that have had success – or failure – with social-emotional learning programs. Tell us about your experiences! Reply to this email to talk to us.

Liz Willen, Editor
Main Idea


** A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works ([link removed])
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Six years ago, Washington-Lee Elementary in Bristol, Virginia, was on a list of the bottom 10 percent of the state’s schools; it is now among the top 14 percent.
Reading List


** In one country, women now outnumber men in college by two to one ([link removed])
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The number of women in college has quietly but decisively overtaken the number of men in almost all of the 36 nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.


** Many HBCUs are teetering between surviving and thriving ([link removed])
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Donald Trump, mired in a race-infused culture war of his own making, receiving repeated applause from a crowd of brown faces. He was heaping praise on the hundreds gathered there for his remarks at the National HBCU Week Conference.


** Helping students with intellectual disabilities conquer college ([link removed])
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More colleges are opening doors to students with intellectual disabilities and giving them life skills and a ticket to employment, but federal funding for some of these programs runs out next year.


** Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students ([link removed])
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Stanford University researchers found that black boys were less likely to drop out of high school if the class was offered at their school compared to black boys at schools where it wasn’t offered.
Solutions
* "How a school for students with dyslexia is changing the game for struggling readers ([link removed]) ," via Chalkbeat.
* "Where 4-year schools find a pool of applicants: 2-year schools ([link removed]) ," via The New York Times.

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