A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning.

Alfie Kohn

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Find out what is being done right now in schools across the country and around the world.

Stay in School: Program Hugely Successful In Reducing High School Drop-Outs

The six year old Pathways to Education program has had a dramatic result in reducing the high school drop-out rate in Regent Park (Toronto) from 56% to 10% and increasing the proportion of young people attending post-secondary education from 20% to 80%.

Imagine a School: Students Describe What Schools Would Look Like If We Got It Right

Imagine a School was a dramatic performance created by high school students from Halifax, Toronto and Vancouver that opened the Canadian Education Association‘s symposium “Getting it Right for Adolescent Learners” in 2006. Find out what adolescents are saying about their experiences in high schools and what schools would look like if we “got it right”.

Making Life Part of the Curriculum

How does a 19th Century Maori war chant figure into the college aspirations of a bunch of student athletes in El Segundo? Just another means of preparing students — not just for college, but for life.

Students Learn Empathy by Connecting with Infants

Roots of Empathy is an evidence-based classroom program that has shown dramatic effect in reducing levels of aggression and violence among school children while raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy.

The School of Tomorrow, Today

This program charts the creation of the Hadley Learning Community, a school designed to provide 21st Century learning environments for a deprived area of Telford, in rural Shropshire, UK. The school includes education and programs for early years to adulthood and incorporates community programs and services.