To Fix Failing Schools, Target Troubled Kids?

One kid at a time. That’s how Turnaround for Children, a nonprofit organization based in New York, approaches schools in tough neighborhoods, where principals “say they can hardly see their teachers’ work through the fog of students’ extreme behavior.” The organization is involved with 20 schools in New York City and three in Washington, helping teachers identify and work with individual students in trouble, not just for their sakes, but for the sake of the school. These are students, writes Times reporter Anna M. Phillips, who could “shatter a classroom’s composure or a school windowpane in an instant.”

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