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Today Show: High schoolers jump start college
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and founder of ivywise.com Katherine Cohen talk with TODAY’s Matt Lauer about the benefits and drawbacks of students ...Read more
2009 Charter Public Schools Essay Contest
Several hundred parents, grandparent, students, educators and family friends recently gathered on the Minnesota State Capitol steps to honor outstanding student writers from grades K-12. ...Read more
Naima Bashir guest on KFAI Somali Community Link radio show
On April 13th 2008 Naima Bashir, Research Assistant for the Center for School Change, was a guest on the KFAI Somali Community Link radio show, ...Read more
PSEO Awareness: MCTC campus visit with Edison Sophomores
Each semester the CSC host a group of high school students at one of the higher education institutions around the Twin Cities as part of ...Read more
Summer 2009 Learning Opportunities
Increasing School/Family/Community Partnerships A Humphrey Institute summer course (PA 5490) July 13- 17, 2009 8:00 AM – 3:30 P.M 3 credits This course will help participants expand and ...Read more
The Center for School Change is a program of the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. The Center works with educators, parents, business people, students, policy-makers and other concerned people throughout the United States to increase student achievement, raise graduation rates, improve student attitudes toward learning, their schools, and their communities, and strengthen communities through building stronger working relationships among educators, parents, students and other community members.

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Participants of the Leadership Academy meet with their business mentors.
To read more about the Leadership Academy please click here

 

 

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New PCC (PSEO Communications Council) members meet with CSC staff on 9/18/08.

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Withrow University High School
How did a Cincinnati Public School with no admissions test produce major improvements in student achievement and graduation rates, improvements so dramatic that the school now has a stronger academic record than many suburban high schools?

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