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Audrey Herzig Jackson

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Audrey Herzig Jackson teaches fifth grade at the Manning Elementary School in Boston. She is a Teach Plus Teaching Policy Fellow. 

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Farmers for a Week: Taking Full Inclusion Outside the Classroom

July 02, 2012 / Audrey Herzig Jackson

Emotionally impaired children are often separated from other students at school. At a unique school in Boston, they are not - and one teacher tested that model on a farm in Vermont for five days.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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