PROGRESS, a U.S. Department of Education blog dedicated to innovative ideas, promising practices and lessons learned in K-12 reforms, is featuring a number of 2014 National Blue Ribbon Schools in a series called Celebrating Progress: Learning Lessons from the 2014 National Blue Ribbon Schools. The first post features the ACGC (Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City) Elementary School in Atwater, Minnesota. A second post honors and Garfield Elementary School and Harrison Elementary School, both in Brainerd, Minnesota.
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Asked to draw on their experience in overcoming challenges, participants at the 2014 annual ceremony of National Blue Ribbon Schools generously offered their thoughts on a range of challenges. Download the latest, on preparing high school students for college and career.