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Dear Community Members:
The Racine Unified School District is considering launching a new charter school, the Racine Scholars Academy, in 2021. Fifty-two years ago, Racine was selected to be part of the largest experiment in the history of education. Already seeing gains from the fast-growing Head Start program, educational leaders in the War on Poverty, proposed a massive experiment into what educational strategies worked best in grades K-3. Ten different approaches were identified to address the needs of the “culturally disadvantaged.” Each model had 4-8 sites, with control groups. The ten different educational models fell into three categories.
1. Affective Skills Model: This model, the Psychodynamic approach, considers social and emotional goals to be key for optimal development of the whole child. ....

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