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Pugmire, Tim

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As urban public schools struggle to increase academic achievement among many poor and minority children, a private school in Minneapolis is succeeding where others have failed. Seed Academy and Harvest Preparatory School began ten years ago as a pre-school program in its founders' house. Today there are 300 students enrolled in pre-school through sixth grade. Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Pugmire recently visited the school to learn how and why it works... Seed Academy and Harvest Preparatory School are located in the same north Minneapolis neighborhood as the public elementary school named for the late African-American educator Mary McCloud Bethune. Seed Academy founder Eric
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  2. Legacy Digitization
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