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Small changes made a big difference at one school
- 03-19-2010
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By Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego
The odds are against Euclid Elementary. It has the third poorest student body in all of San Diego Unified. The vast majority of its students are still learning English, going home to chat in Spanish, Vietnamese or Khmer. It isn't a celebrated magnet or a charter school. Its building in eastern City Heights is plain and functional. Add all that up and you might expect Euclid to be another sad story in public schooling. But it isn't. Euclid racks up some of the highest test scores in the state for schools with high numbers of English learners and poor students, rivaling schools in middle class areas. Teachers rarely leave and suspensions are rare. Children giddily rattle off vocabulary words to Principal Vickie Jacobson on the playground. (more...)
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