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  • Reimagining failure: ‘Last-chance' schools are the future of American high schools

    July 05, 2017 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    An alternative approach to education has long existed, but in the last decade, collaborations between non-profit student-support organizations and public schools have fostered a model called "Last-Chance Schools" with remarkable success. The program targets root causes for dropping out, including economic disadvantages, mental health challenges, violence, and unstable home lives. As several Boston charter schools demonstrate, use of social-emotional learning, conflict-mediation instead of zero-tolerance discipline, and flexible curricula has helped boost graduation and college acceptance rates while lowering suspensions.

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  • Taking On Recidivism: Larry Platt speaks with Attorney General Josh Shapiro

    June 26, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania's attorney general may sound more like a defense attorney as he lays out plans to focus more resources on helping people returning from incarceration integrate into society. But Josh Shapiro insists his approach is pragmatic and he helped launch a statewide re-entry council that coordinates efforts among 21 local coalitions and also brings in services providers and state agencies. The effort is using a comprehensive approach to address crime, including addiction treatment, housing and education.

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  • Empowering Women to Break the Jihadi Cycle

    June 20, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Indonesia

    In order to counter terrorism and reduce recidivism of incarcerated male jihadists', the Entrepreneurship and Proselytization Empowerment Program helps the wives of jailed extremists through counseling and lessons about entrepreneurship. The program can help these families stay afloat and decrease the appeal of extremism for their husbands upon release.

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  • How Prisoners' Family Members Can Assist Overworked Public Defenders

    June 05, 2017 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Norristown, Pennsylvania

    Public defenders' caseloads are too large for them to be able to provide the details that a loved one of an offender can provide in court. Participatory Defense programs train loved ones of the offender to be able to provide a testimony, often resulting in less severe sentences.

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  • Just 20% of kids got 4-year degrees, so Chehalis schools changed everything

    June 02, 2017 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Chehalis, Washington

    The Chehalis school district has teamed up with the Chehalis Foundation to support students pursue higher education after high school. Only 15% of adults in the area have a bachelor's degree, and only 20% of graduating high school seniors earn a four-year degree. Now, the district is working to transform itself by retraining teachers to provide more rigorous lessons, placing emphasis on college preparation, and demystifying the college application and financial process for students and their families.

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  • Why Boston Is Paying Ex-Gang Members To Go To College

    June 02, 2017 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Dorchester, the Boston neighborhood with the highest poverty levels, struggles to keep kids in school from engaging with gangs and crime. But College Bound Dorchester (CBD) is fast rewriting the solution to high drop out and recidivism rates, paying ex-offenders a weekly stipend to enroll in and complete a diploma program and proceed to (and through) college. With "core influencers" -- ex-gang members who have "left behind their troubled pasts" -- as role models in the community, CBD emulates similar programs in Chicago and Baltimore, and studies show the initiative is working.

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  • Oklahoma City-Based International Development NGO Focuses On Women

    May 23, 2017 |

    WMOT |

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    Response Location: India, Madhubani, Bihar

    In many rural villages in Northern India and Nepal, long-standing cultural norms have relegated women to subordinate positions in marriage and minimal educational opportunities, stifling the social, agricultural and economic development of entire communities. But with the NGO World Neighbors' work to increase female literacy and help initiate locally-controlled savings and credit groups, these areas' female residents have become a more empowered component of local development and progressive change.

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  • After 36 Years in Prison, This Philadelphian Has a Model for Criminal Justice Reform

    March 31, 2017 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Lack of education was the downfall of one Philadelphia man who spent 36 years in prison, and education proved to be his redemption when he discovered he could do well in coursework. He got a college degree and helped bring the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program to the prison where he was incarcerated. He continues to work with the program, which matches prisoners with college students and professors to help them gain the skills they need, and also fosters more compassion and understanding for those incarcerated.

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  • Philabundance Community Kitchen Turns Former Prisoners Into Chefs

    February 09, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Facing social stigma as well as other effects of being incarcerated, Philabundance Community Kitchen is using culinary education to provide much needed services to those formerly incarcerated. Via cooking classes and other life skills classes, this program has helped over 600 previously incarcerated Philadelphians attain employment in the culinary field.

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  • The Salvadoran Ex-Guerrilla Who Learned to Read to Stop Corporate Mining

    January 18, 2017 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: El Salvador, Canton Las Limas, Chalatenango

    When Maria Lidia Guardado learned that a Canadian mining company was drilling on her land, she educated herself. Through her new found knowledge she learned her rights, and led her community in a nonviolent effort to legally fight for their land.

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