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  • Door Step School Brings Education to Out-of-School Children in India

    July 14, 2018 |

    Borgen Magazine |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    The Door Step School group is making education accessible to disadvantaged communities across India. Part of that approach included its mobile classroom, School on Wheels, where a bus with a driver, instructor, and a supervisor head out to different communities and host up to 50 pupils at a time.

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  • Farmworkers Feed Us. How Do We Support Their Kids?

    July 13, 2018 |

    Wyoming Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Manvel, North Dakota

    Children of farmworker families, many of whom travel seasonally during the school year, often need help filling gaps in the curriculum. Since the 1960s, the Migrant Education Program has been providing states with access to federal education funds meant to assist the children of migrant families with meeting educational requirements.. The money is used to provide different levels of support, from summer instruction to specialized curricula, in the states that continue to accept funding.

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  • After Decades of Reform, Has Chicago Finally Learned How to Fix Education?

    July 01, 2018 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In 2017, researchers found that Chicago elementary and middle school students were improving their test scores at a faster pace than almost all of their peers nationwide. Reflecting on this surprising statistic and lessons learned from 30 years of education reform experimentation, CPS points to its emphasis on high quality principal development and teacher mentoring programs as one of the most crucial factors in the turnaround.

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  • The People Behind Your Tech Addiction Are Now Trying to Curb It

    June 28, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Teaching people about the harmful impacts of social media and tech addiction are a crucial first step in mitigating its consequences. The Center for Human Technology (CHT) has partnered with Common Sense Media to launch the Truth About Tech campaign, which calls for a shift in values surrounding technology and tech companies. The organizations accomplish this through a curricula designed to teach awareness and mindfulness about tech use beginning at an early age. By high school, students are introduced to ethical design principles.

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  • This Delta literacy program could be a model for lifting reading skills

    June 14, 2018 |

    Mississippi Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Three elementary schools in an after-school reading pilot program saw significant increases in the percentage of students reaching third-grade level literacy benchmarks. The Mississippi-based curriculum takes a data-driven approach to improving kids' reading skills, allowing teachers to craft individual interventions for specific students. The program, which is uniquely hands-on and boasts a small student-to-teacher ratio, also includes lessons that actively engage parents in the process in order to reinforce reading skills and practice activities at home.

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  • Colleges Are No Match for American Poverty

    May 30, 2018 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Journalist Marcella Bombardieri calls community college "one of America's largest and most important anti-poverty programs." The president of Amarillo College in Texas is testing just how far community colleges can go to fight systemic issues - day care, social workers, and emergency funds for students' daily expenses are part of his plan. Other administrators are looking on at the dramatic experiment with mixed views and takeaways.

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  • An Honors College That Honors Grit

    May 22, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

    Unlike the honors colleges at most universities, the Honors Living-Learning Community at Rutgers University-Newark recruits students based on "grit" and commitment to social justice. The Community creates a supportive experience within the larger campus and focuses students' studies on issues ranging from civil rights to environmental justice. “For the first time these students are learning about themselves and about that corner where they come from,” an assistant dean commented. Honors students' freshman GPAs are on average half a grade higher than the grades of non-honors students.

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  • Three years in, an ambitious experiment to improve the odds for kids at one elementary school is scaling back

    March 08, 2018 |

    Chalkbeat |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    A Colorado nonprofit takes a "place-based" approach to improving student outcomes. By offering wraparound social and educational services, Blocks of Hope aims "to flood a carefully defined geographic area with services in the hopes of touching a critical mass of residents, usually around 60 percent." On its third anniversary, the trumpeted program has started to lose steam, running up against the realities of a gentrifying neighborhood and funding shortages.

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  • Is There a Smarter Way to Think About Sexual Assault on Campus?

    February 12, 2018 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Researchers at Columbia University undertook an exhaustive ethnography, interviewing hundreds of students on campus to understand the conditions under which sexual assault occurs. The idea was to get past common assumptions about the dynamics of assault and find what strategies might work best to protect all students. Researchers concluded small structural adjustments to student life could bring substantial change, including more mental health services and different types of responses based on the individual students and the types of incidents.

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  • California School District Explores Strength-Based Learning

    February 02, 2018 |

    U.S. News & World Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Galt, California

    Lake Canyon Elementary School in California takes a strength-based approach to instruction - teachers identify students' natural talents and create personalized lessons to encourage the development of these skills. "Focusing on the traits and skills kids don't have can lead them to become disengaged, while focusing on strengths produces greater levels of happiness and engagement at school and higher levels of academic achievement," one psychology professor explains. Teachers discipline by highlighting "a surplus of something good, not a deficiency." Can the expensive, time-intensive model succeed elsewhere?

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