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  • The Kitchen as Classroom: How Food Helps Students Learn Leadership

    May 07, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    The Detroit Food Academy brings together local educators, chefs, and business owners to teach youth and young adults in the city business and entrepreneurship skills through cooking lessons and opportunities. The program is instructing students “how to think about entrepreneurship, equity and production in the food industry, and getting a wide range of experiences to help them understand food sovereignty.”

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  • How having access to laundry facilities is changing the school experience for many kids

    May 07, 2019 |

    KMGH-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    To curb chronic absences, a Denver school joined the growing number of schools nationally who have installed a washing machine within their walls to reduce stigmas and allow students to focus on learning. "Nationally, Whirpool says, 85 percent of high-risk students in elementary schools increased their attendance in 2017-18 with the help of their program."

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  • Changing How You Think Helps The Transition From Prisoner Back To Citizen

    May 06, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Bernardino, California

    For people reentering society after prison, the Reentry Initiative offers them the services and support they need. The program, housed at California State San Bernardino, provides former inmates the tools they need to avoid recidivism and rebuild their lives. Some of the classes offered are computer literacy, job readiness, and anger management – but fundamental to it all is cultivating a culture of respect and community amongst participants.

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  • Laundromats are playing an unlikely role in the effort to shrink America's literacy gap

    May 05, 2019 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: United States

    The average American family spends more than two hours at the local laundromat. The Clinton Foundation and other partners have set up "Reading & Play Spaces" in 250 laundromats across the country to encourage literacy and parent-child interactions: "This project is part of a much larger vision to reinvent everyday spaces to encourage the kinds of experiences that help children thrive."

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  • What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

    May 04, 2019 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    A growing number of companies are eliminating the phrase "bachelor's degree required" from their job postings. The Hechinger Report explores how companies such as Houghton Mifflin have shifted their hiring practices in recent years to emphasize applicants' skills rather than degrees with help from organizations like Resilient Coders, which offer software engineering and web development bootcamps for people of color.

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  • How California Is Making Up for 20 Years of English-Only Education

    May 03, 2019 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    In California, half of school-aged children are the children of immigrants. Among many other initiatives in the city, a community-wide training project in Fresno aims to improve how adults in the city work with students of immigrant families. One of the challenges of the renewed push for a bilingual approach - finding sufficient bilingual teachers after years of the state's English-only education policies.

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  • In Indonesia, bigger catches for a fishing village protecting its mangroves

    May 03, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Sungai Nibung

    Offering ecosystems a short break from extractive practices can stave off environmental degradation and overfishing. In Indonesia, regions of the Nibung River are closed for several months to allow populations of fish and crabs to recover. The fishing moratoriums not only increase yields and ecosystem resilience, they also improve the quality of life of fishermen. Planet Indonesia, a nongovernmental organization, works enroll locals into the environmental reforms through literacy promotion and education.

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  • Trading Pencils for Hammers: These Kids Are Learning Math and Getting Jobs Right Out of High School Audio icon

    May 02, 2019 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Pflugerville, Texas

    Hands-on experience can improve learning outcomes. By using the Geometry in Construction curriculum, developed by Contextual Learning Concepts, schools across the US are not only teaching kids geometry, they are also helping them gain valuable vocational skills. Several of the schools have even paired the program with service work by partnering with Habitat for Humanity.

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  • State of decay: How Maine's dentists get help to practice in underserved areas

    May 02, 2019 |

    WGME-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Portland, Maine

    Rural areas of Maine were being underserved when it came to dental hygiene, so the state opened a dental college and a loan repayment program in order to increase the amount of industry professionals. Since opening, the amount of dentists serving these areas has increased and now the university is looking to scale even further by increasing the amount offered in the loan repayment program.

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  • NMSU works to recruit, train needed bilingual teachers

    May 02, 2019 |

    New Mexico In Depth |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Although many students in New Mexico enter kindergarten speaking two languages, a lack of bilingual and dual language classrooms means students often have trouble maintaining their Spanish or that English Language Learners don't receive appropriate instruction. New Mexico State University and Las Cruces Public Schools are working to break this cycle and recruit and train more bilingual teachers by offering degree programs and incentives and extra resources to teachers who choose this path.

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