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Usable Knowledge News

April 2009

Learning from charter schools: Lessons for educators
	In her new book, HGSE Senior Lecturer Katherine Merseth discusses the lessons that high-performing charter schools offer to all educators.

Popping the question: How can schools engage families in education? Family and community engagement does not have to be considered only an outcome of a whole-school action plan. Instead, it can be a strategy for achieving learning outcomes. HGSE Lecturer Karen Mapp discusses how to enhance family engagement by linking it to learning in school.

Restoring the balance: Putting the adolescent reading crisis in context

Vicki Jacobs, Lecturer and Associate Director of the Teacher Education Program at HGSE, approaches the current crisis in adolescent literacy from an historical perspective and discusses the relationship between content-based instruction and literacy instruction.

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