“Building a Better Teacher”
GRANTEES IN THE NEWS
Source: The New York Times
If the magic ingredient for good schools is high quality teachers, what makes a great teacher? This article profiles Doug Lemov and his interesting response. Lemov was a co-founder of the Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter School in Boston, and now works for Uncommon Schools, a nonprofit that starts, manages and networks outstanding charter schools in the Northeast.
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Featuring Uncommon Schools, whose associate member schools Boston Collegiate Charter School and Roxbury Preparatory Charter School are grantees of the Clipper Ship Foundation, Charles Hayden Foundation, Mabel Louise Riley Foundation and the Schrafft Charitable Trust.
Source: The Boston Globe
A report by Corporate Accountability International as part of its national public education and action campaign, Think Outside the Bottle, outlines bottled water spending in nine states, maps trends in public water system investments and examines the additional costs associated with water bottling.
