"We've redesigned our middle school to focus in on what it would ... a college campus," Zachary Segall, Principal of Achievement First Aspire said. Achievement First serves more than 13,000 ...

Shanice Brown, a teacher and “goals coach” for this group of fifth-grade girls at Achievement First Aspire Middle School, a public charter in Brooklyn, N.Y., gently coaxed her to speak loudly ...

At Achievement First Aspire Middle School in Brooklyn on a day in November, that meant half the fifth-graders in one room were discussing “A Long Walk to Water,” a novel set during the Second ...