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Hope for Urban Education

A Study of Nine High-Performing,
High-Poverty Urban Elementary Schools

1999

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Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Background
• Differences Among the Nine Schools
• Improvement Strategies
• Recommendations
• Bibliography
• Case Studies:
  • Harriet A. Baldwin Elementary School
  • Baskin Elementary School
  • Burgess Elementary School
  • Centerville Elementary School
  • Goodale Elementary School
  • Hawley Environmental Elementary School
  • Lora B. Peck Elementary School
  • Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary School
  • James Ward Elementary School
• Report Conclusion

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