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3. **Massachusetts Virtual Academy at Greenfield** ** [] **

 * Virtual Schools are schools where students receive 80% or more of their instruction online . **
 * 1) Read the** Innovation School Plan and Executive Summary ** for the **Massachusetts Virtual Academy at Greenfield in Greenfield**, **Massachusetts**

4. Coalition of Essential Schools []

 * 1) The homepage of **CES, in the ribbon across the top of the page, click __About CES__ to read "About the Coalition of Essential Schools". **
 * 2) ** View the video, ** **CES-Building 21st Century Schools**.
 * 3) ** Read ** **Our Vision****, No Two Schools Alike, ****What We Do**** , ** **Who We Are** (click **Theodore R. Sizer** )** , and** **The CES Common Principles**
 * 4) **CES schools in US http://www.essentialschools.org/affiliates?search[order]=&search[type_filter][]=All+affiliates&search[state_id]=22**

**5. Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School,Devens, MA [] **

 * Open the home page of the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School and **click Table of Contents to find Parker blogs/ Arctic Blog** . Read a few entries of the **summer's trip to the Arctic by 4 students and a teacher**.
 * Return to the home page and **click Table of Contents to find The Parker Way/ Spring 2009 to read about students' efforts to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina's devastation .**
 * Return to the home page and **click Table of Contents to find Learn More About Parker/ Ten Common Principles .**

**Magnet Schools**, including **Magnet Schools of America** at [] and the **Worcester Arts Magnet School** at  []

 * On the MSA home page read the Welcome and on the left hand choices, open About MSA/ read Who We Are
 * On the MSA home page In the right hand choices under News and Updates is The New Civil Rights Project report released- Equity Overlooked: Charter School and Civil Rights. Open Full Report Accessed Here and r ead the Executive Summary, pages 3-5.
 * On the MSA home page on the left open Newsroom: MSA in the News/ read Magnet School Wins National Competition
 * At the Worcester Arts Magnet School homepage in the left side choices, open Curriculum/ Mathematics and read News 9/15/09- Mass Math & Science Initiative

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**Expeditionary Learning Schools** at []  and **The Springfield Renaissance School** at  @http://www.sps.springfield.ma.us/websites/RenaissanceSchool.asp   ======
 * On the ELS home page read **all of the tabs** and the information included in each: Our Approach, Our Results, Educator Resources, Press Center, About us.
 * **Visit The Springfield Renaissance School** its url above, open each of the tabs on the left hand ribbon and read about the school and its mission.

http://www.newyorkharborschool.org/

 * a related story to the New York Harbor School: **

** //__What Some Students Face Daily, Other Do No__////__t__// ** **Students Find Danger Lurks To and From Schoo**
**NPR's Morning Edition, Nov.23, 2009** Voices of Youth Radio **reports about the San Francisco Bay Area's students as they walk to and from school.** **Listen to:** **Students Find Danger Lurks To and From Schoo****l** **in the list of the day's program reports**. http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?=11&=23&=2009&prgId=3&prgDate=11-23-2009.


 * Charter Schools**, including the **US Charter Schools** website at []  and the **Pioneer Valley Performing Arts School** at  []
 * On the homepage of **US Charter Schools** open Overview . Read Overview and History .
 * Open Federal Support and read that information.
 * Open the home page of the **Pioneer Valley Performing Arts School.** Choose one of the selections on the boom box radio/stereo on the left side to listen to as you look through the four departments: **Music, Dance, Theater, Visual Arts**.
 * Open **Performances** on the top ribbon, choose **Performance Videos** and view a few.

**Dreambox Recognizes 8 Innovative Charter Schools/ Visit any of the award winning schools**
** @http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=387468148266 **

**Dreambox Learning**, an online learning source of individualized math, has a vision of learning success for all students: []
Boston's most underperforming and most violent schools are in need of change, but how and what to do are the questions.http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2009/11/18/lagging_boston_schools_targeted_for_overhaul_possible_closure/ http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2009/11/19/violence_in_and_around_dorchester_school_chills_parents_students/ http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/11/19/abandoned_to_violence/
 * Do you think new Charter Schools for Boston might help the situation described in these news clips?**

**Charter School Research**
Click here for a 2010 [|New York Times article on research on charter schools].

Click here for a [|Boston Globe article on charter schools and student achievement].


 * Dear Mr. President: Students Speak up to President Obama About How to Improve Their Schools**

//Watch the video on YouTube:// [|//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M58sNpdX5k0//]

**Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning** []
 * Read the National Council of Teachers of English statement on Anti-Racist Teaching** . **You do not need to open the links in this report**, only **read the statement on the page**.