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10.09.2008 5:02 pm

Theory of relativity, revisited

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

On Thursday morning, KMOX’s Charles Brennan recounted a story by the Post-Dispatch’s Elizabethe Holland describing the lingering trauma, in the aftermath of the February shootings at City Hall, that led Claire Budd to resign after 15 years in the post of Kirkwood public…

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09.19.2008 3:31 pm

For many kids, violence trumps learning

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Researchers at the University of Missouri-St. Louis last week released the results of the second-phase of a long-term study on the depths of violence visited upon young people residing in some of St. Louis’s toughest neighborhoods.

Updating a project that started ten…

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09.10.2008 3:20 pm

For poor kids, classroom learning is one piece of the puzzle

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Paul Tough, a top-shelf narrator on the topic of urban education, writes in The New York Times Magazine of an emerging theory of thought promoted in differing ways  by two prominent scholars and an equally prominent social activist. The theory posits…

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