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- Atop Mount Everest
- Ciprian “Chip” Popoviciu stands atop Mount Everest holding the flag designed for this expedition by the Martin GT Magnet Middle School students. Spread out on the snow in front of him are colorful Buddhist prayer flags offered by climbers in thanks for...
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- Journey to the top of the world: Climbing Mount Everest
- This slideshow tells the story of a North Carolina adventurer's ascent of Mount Everest in photos, video, and text, including excerpts from his journal.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- Children in Lukla, Nepal
- Two children are seen sitting in front of a log building in Lukla, Nepal. The older child is wearing an orange and gray hooded sweatshirt and his arm is draped over the shoulder of the younger child. The younger child is wearing a bright teal blue sweatshirt...
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- Monkey Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal
- The stupa at Swayanabath located on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal is also known as the Monkey Temple. Brightly colored flags are suspended from the golden top of the stupa to the ground. Here Buddhists and Hindus worship side-by-side in harmony. Mount...
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- Project-based learning
- Project-based learning is a teaching approach that engages students in sustained, collaborative real-world investigations. Projects are organized around a driving question, and students participate in a variety of tasks that seek to meaningfully address this...
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- By Heather Coffey.
Public school of choice that emphasizes a special curricular program designed to attract students from outside an attendance zone in order to enhance desegregation efforts and diversify student populations.
See also school choice.
Additional information
Magnet schools were established by the U.S. Department of Education’s Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) in 1972, and gained popularity after the passage of the 1985 Magnet Schools Assistance Program. Magnet schools were conceived as one response to remedy racial segregation in schools. Special magnet programs include a science or technology focus, or an arts integration focus.
