Gates Foundation Grant / Playing It Smart -- Students Tutored in Spreading Word That School Is Cool

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The idea that only a few people in a room are smart and the rest have a lot to prove is on trial this week in camp designed to change hearts and minds and eventually the culture of Memphis City Schools.

It all comes down to some simple brain theory, which 15 middle schoolers are soaking up at Douglass Elementary and five other city schools.

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Gates Foundation Grant / Playing It Smart -- Students Tutored in Spreading Word That School Is Cool

"Smart is not just something you are but something you get," says Barbara Logan, director of School Services and Training at the Efficacy Institute in Walt...

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