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Diploma

Jason Wasserman, a teacher, plays chess with an advisee. "It's all the underdogs," he says of students at SAVA.
Education

'We Want a Kid You Don't Have Any Idea What to Do With'

Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy helps very vulnerable students succeed in high school—and beyond.

By Emily Kaplan
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Social Justice

Making the Case for a Good-Enough Diploma

Common Core and big business have combined to make the lot of the upwardly mobile high school dropout even more dire.

By Daniel J. McGraw