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Ascend faculty and scholars welcomed a distinguished visitor Friday, former Nebraska Governor and U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey.  Senator Kerrey began his visit at the rousing morning meeting of the Bushwick Ascend Charter School before heading to the Lower Schools of Brownsville Ascend and Brooklyn Ascend Charter Schools. He ended his visit at the new Brooklyn Ascend Middle School.  Kerrey, who has long worked to raise national reading and writing standards, was d… Read more

Fifth-graders at Brooklyn Ascend Middle School got some expert advice this week as they welcomed Michael Thomas to their classroom. The first in a planned series of visiting writers, Thomas is the author of Man Gone Down, winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, A Public Space, and the anthology The Book of Dads. He teaches at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn. His second book, The Broken… Read more