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  • How NYC's Harbor School is trying to reduce summer school stigma

    Michael Elsen-Rooney
    2023-08-02 19:25:37 UTC
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    July 24, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School on Governors Island offers a summer school program that provides a low-pressure environment for students to complete coursework they may struggle with during the traditional school year. Students benefit from flexible scheduling that allows many to work part-time, as well as more individualized academic attention thanks to lower student-teacher ratios.

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  • How local, state programs are helping fill retiring doctors' ranks

    Kelly Burch
    2023-07-28 14:50:51 UTC
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    July 22, 2023 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

    Several state and local programs are emerging to fill the shoes of retiring doctors in the area, like the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) program. ANEW covers the cost of higher education for local nurses to become APRNs to then work as primary care nurse practitioners tto help address the lack of doctors and increase access to healthcare. So far, about 40 APRNs have graduated from the ANEWA program, 68% of which are from rural communities.

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  • 'Achieve your dreams at home'

    Nora Mabie
    2023-08-02 19:39:40 UTC
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    July 22, 2023 |

    Indian Country Today |

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    Response Location: Blackfeet Nation, United States, Browning, Montana

    In 2019, Montana’s Blackfeet Community College launched its first four-year bachelor’s in nursing degree program with the goal of helping to address care shortages in the local Indigenous community. The program’s first graduate, who received her degree in 2023 and is now working as a long-term care nurse, said the college’s relationship-based approach helped her stick with her studies even through the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • One college finds a way to get students to degrees more quickly, simply and cheaply

    Jon Marcus
    2023-08-03 19:36:49 UTC
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    July 20, 2023 |

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    Response Location: England, Coventry

    At CU Coventry, students take just one course at a time for four hours each day, which allows them to finish a bachelor’s degree within three years. The fixed schedule and “no frills” tuition is often more convenient for nontraditional students who may have children or full-time careers outside of school.

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  • A School Where Children Correct Their Own Mistakes

    Natalie Polakova, Runa Koblihova
    2023-08-30 15:51:54 UTC
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    July 20, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic, Reznovice

    For 30 years, the village school in Reznovice, Czech Republic has used a system of formative assessment, which relies less on traditional grading and encourages students to be more active in leading their learning and assessing their own progress. Parents report that they like the more in-depth form of assessment because it makes it clear where their children excel and need more improvement.

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  • Preventing suspensions: Tackle discipline problems with empathy first

    Tara García Mathewson
    2023-08-03 19:55:39 UTC
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    July 20, 2023 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    Behavioral management programs such as Behavioral Leadership, the Crisis Prevention Institute, and Empathic Instruction train teachers how to incentivize appropriate behaviors and lead with empathy rather than relying on punitive discipline such as suspensions. These approaches have been shown to reduce in-school suspensions and reduce disciplinary disparities for marginalized students.

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  • How the Military Can Save Affirmative Action

    Will Norris
    2023-07-19 16:29:52 UTC
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    July 18, 2023 |

    Washington Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, West Point, New York

    The U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School is a year-long academic support program for promising applicants to military academies who don’t yet meet admission requirements. Roughly 40 percent of USMAPS students are Black, and about 83 percent of all USMAPS students go on to be accepted to selective military academies.

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  • En Guatemala, un colectivo de jóvenes artistas forma una familia con el cine

    Isabella Grullón Paz
    2023-09-08 17:37:14 UTC
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    July 18, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    La productora cinematográfica Desobediencia Perfecta reúne a colaboradores de mente abierta en un espacio inclusivo en Guatemala para producir trabajos artísticos sobre temas sociales difíciles. El grupo adopta un enfoque democrático para cada proyecto. Reúnen recursos entre ellos y se apoyan en la tutoría de figuras solidarias en la industria cinematográfica de Guatemala para darle vida a sus proyectos, que ya incluye dos cortometrajes.

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  • Brazosport ISD is training its own teachers. The program might become a model for other Texas schools.

    Brian Lopez
    2023-08-04 13:38:28 UTC
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    July 18, 2023 |

    The Texas Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Clute, Texas

    The Brazosport school district has a unique teacher apprenticeship program which covers the cost of aspiring teachers’ coursework and pays them to teach under a mentor educator for a full year. Twenty-five new teachers graduated from the program this year and will be required to work in the district for at least three years, and research shows that about 86 percent of educators who complete similar programs are still teaching in the same district after three years.

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  • Bank of America Is Using AI and Metaverse to Train New Hires

    Katherine Doherty
    2023-07-21 23:05:46 UTC
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    July 13, 2023 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States

    Bank of America is training its employees with virtual reality and artificial intelligence. The immersive program runs them through simulations of scenarios they might encounter on the job such as an upset customer or a bank robbery. The new method helps employees learn faster and makes them more comfortable performing tasks.

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  • Solutions journalism…
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  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, searchable database of solutions journalism stories — rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. We vet and tag every story in the Story Tracker, which offers an inspiring and useful collection of the thousands of ways people are working to solve problems around the world.

  • You can learn more about how we source, vet, and tag stories here, as well as how we share them. We also have video tutorials in Spanish and French that show how to use the Solutions Story Tracker to find what you need.

  • Story collections are curated by our staff or other partners to explore a theme, pattern, or trend via selected solutions stories and external resources. Some story collections focus on an in-depth exploration of a topic with solutions journalism; others highlight journalists and how they report on topics. Certain story collections include discussion questions and notes, so that educators and community discussion leaders can lead learners to fully engage with the stories.

  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is powered by user submissions. We encourage submissions from journalists, as well as from anyone who has an eye for solutions journalism. Click here to submit. (Why submit? So many reasons!)

  • You can submit a story directly on the Solutions Story Tracker®. You will be prompted to register or log into the Solutions Journalism Network website, if you are already logged in. (It is free to register!) Logging in allows you to track the status of your submissions under My Profile, as well as save your favorite stories, create story collections and story alerts, and access other helpful features of our website.

  • After you submit a story to us and assign it a topic, it is sent to one of our Solutions Story Tracker team members. Our team member evaluates the story for the four qualities of solutions journalism, and on the basics: The story must come from a news outlet and have a date and a byline. If the story meets our criteria, our team tags it accordingly and adds it to the database. If the story falls short of the mark, our team will include the reason why. We include stories in the Story Tracker that meet our standards of solutions journalism. Inclusion does not mean we support the initiatives, policies, organizations or approaches featured in those stories.

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  • Solutions Journalism Network features these stories in the searchable database making them publicly accessible to anyone who wants to search for rigorous reporting on solutions to social problems. Any story that is added has the potential to make more impact than its original purpose. Added stories are used in journalism trainings, school curricula, research projects, and independent analysis on issue area trends. This now includes artificial intelligence tools, which are applied for educational value to find stories and support story vetting, as well as to extract insights from the stories. SJN has digital products and newsletters that give new life and exposure to the stories meeting people where they are at. Story data also is used to develop innovative tools to reach the general public with solutions journalism as well as some specific research projects requested by researchers. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of story data or added stories, please contact Lita Tirak.

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