Uncommon Schools (Uncommon) is a non-profit organization in the United States that starts and manages urban charter public schools that prepare low-income students to graduate from college. Uncommon develops and manages regional networks that are philosophically aligned, and currently manages 32 schools in New York City, upstate New York, Newark, New Jersey, and Boston, Massachusetts. The organization plans to manage 45 schools, serving nearly 16,000 K through 12th grade students by 2017.
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“What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,—for there must be subordination,—but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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