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  • For A Small Rural Texas Town, the Solution to a Teacher Shortage Is a Motel

    September 29, 2022 |

    The 74 |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Stockton, Texas

    The Fort Stockton Independent School District in Texas is attracting qualified teachers with high pay and cheap rent at school-owned housing.

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  • How this Texas university helps farmworkers' kids through college

    September 28, 2022 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    The College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) is a federal program that was developed as a result of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Higher Education Act of 1965, which was aimed at helping students living in poverty navigate the education process. More than 2,890 students — mostly from low-income, Hispanic families who do seasonal farm work — have gone through the program over the past five decades.

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  • ‘The Mary Lyon way': A Boston inclusion school's successful approach to re-engagement

    September 27, 2022 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    The Mary Lyon School is a “full-inclusion school” designed to give students — especially those with special needs, including emotional and behavioral disabilities — the necessary resources and supports to see positive outcomes with their education. The Mary Lyon School uses community-based approaches and philosophies rooted in inclusion to stay connected with students and their families to help guide them toward their graduation day.

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  • Indianapolis Students Get ‘Leg Up' On Careers With European-Style Apprenticeships

    September 26, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    Europen-inspired apprenticeship programs in Indianapolis, Indiana, pay students to work and train for jobs allowing them to gain career experience and pay part, or all, of their college tuition before graduation.

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  • Report: More States Are Giving Students a Say in Education Policy

    September 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    At least 33 states now involve students in education policymaking through formal advisory roles or positions on state boards, and these youth have helped spearhead changes, such as a Massachusetts rule requiring student feedback to be considered in the teacher evaluation process and a Washington bill creating school-based liaisons to coordinate homelessness services.

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  • Here's how an NGO is offering hope to children with down syndrome, other disabilities in Sokoto

    September 17, 2022 |

    International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto

    The Handicap Opportunity for Positive Engagement Society is a nonprofit in Nigeria that provides free, specialized education for children with disabilities. Since the teaching is specific to their needs, students tend to improve in areas they’ve had difficulty with at other schools while here.

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  • Hydroponics Help Urban Schools Grow Food Year-Round

    September 13, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Middle and high schools around the country are embracing hydroponic farming. Hydroponics serves as an appealing, interdisciplinary teaching tool and a way to produce fresh, healthy food for students at school and within their communities. Several companies and startups, like Freight Farms, provide the resources for hydroponics farming to schools, with 16 K-12 schools currently using the technology.

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  • They lost their chance at education once. Then it came knocking on their doors

    September 09, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Rafin-Guza, Kaduna

    The Yasmin El-rufai Foundation's Women Literacy Programme offers training and instruction to women who have not had the opportunity to pursue a formal education. Each cohort completes 13 months of coursework to support literacy, numeracy, oral English, public speaking, civics, and information and computer technology.

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  • A university initiative plants 33,000 trees to fight climate change, COVID-19 poses a threat

    September 08, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Achoro-Ndiagu, Ebonyi

    Over 33,000 trees have been planted through the Campus Green Initiative at a Nigerian university. By planting the trees, they are able to mitigate the effects of strong winds that destroy buildings on campus. Funding the initiative can be difficult, but they are planning to grow the program to plant more trees.

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  • What It's Like To Make A Film Almost Entirely In Prison

    September 07, 2022 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Inmates taking a credit-bearing film course through Miami Dade College created a short film while inside Everglades Correctional Institution in Florida. The program helps incarcerated students get credits towards degrees and gain skills they could use for employment when they leave.

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