Knowing What Is Going On in Kids’ Lives 

“Price Lab seems to have a way of knowing what is going on in kids’ lives,” says Jimmy, a 2006 graduate of Malcolm Price Laboratory School, the demonstration school of the College of Education at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). Although Price Lab has a national reputation as an instructional model, student anecdotes consistently reveal the school’s nurturing side. With his mother confined to a hospital, Jimmy found himself floundering in his junior year, trying to get himself to school and handling the pressures of being on his own. Teachers were incredibly supportive, particularly one who told him that she would be “honored if he would come live with her family.” Jimmy moved in with the teacher and her husband (a Price Lab administrator) and was able to graduate with his class. Read more >>

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