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  • Baltimore nonprofit aims to curb youth crime with citywide after-school programs

    November 01, 2023 |

    WYPR |

    Radio |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Elementary, middle, secondary, and alternative schools are partnering with the nonprofit Elev8 Baltimore to provide enrichment programs for students after school. The nonprofit’s aim is to keep students away from danger and crime by keeping them in school buildings, so the programs are tailored to student interests at each school.

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  • Latino, Black enrollment in advanced math shot up after this simple change

    October 07, 2023 |

    NBC News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Texas

    To improve the percentage of Black and Latino students in advanced math courses, some school districts, such as Hays Consolidated Independent School District, have begun using standardized test scores and performance assessments alongside teacher recommendations to automatically enroll middle schoolers in higher-level classes. The district has seen the share of rising sixth graders enrolled in advanced math rise from 26 percent to 42 percent over three years.

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  • California Leads the Way in Low-Carbon School Meals

    September 19, 2023 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Schools in California are offering more plant-based options to make lunch more climate-friendly, healthier, and more inclusive for those with dietary restrictions or preferences.

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  • This Juárez Nonprofit Uses Sports To Deter Youth From Violence

    March 13, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Ciudad Juárez

    Wellness schools, Escuelas de Bienestar, run by a nonprofit in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, train physical education teachers to integrate topics like human rights, drug prevention, and emotional health into the play in their school programming. The learning combined with play aims to deter youth from participating in violence and help them build personal connections.

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  • What It Takes To Shelter Washington State's Housing Insecure Youth

    March 13, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    School districts in Washington State are required to identify students experiencing homelessness and enroll them into a state program in which the district pays for the students' transportation and covers the cost of other necessities with allotted federal funds.

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  • Las Cruces middle schoolers take action to improve the air quality of their school

    February 24, 2023 |

    KRWG-PBS |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Las Cruces, New Mexico

    Middle school students in Las Cruces, New Mexico, built homemade air filters called Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes to help improve air quality and limit the spread of COVID-19 in classrooms.

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  • In response to COVID-19, Las Cruces middle schoolers are taking action to improve the air quality of their school

    February 24, 2023 |

    KRWG-PBS |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Las Cruces, New Mexico

    Students at Mesilla Valley Leadership Academy are taking action to protect themselves and others against COVID-19 and other allergens by building homemade air filters, called Corsi-Rosenthal boxes. The boxes are relatively inexpensive when compared to standard HEPA air filters and help reduce COVID-19 virus transmission and improve air quality. So far, students at the Academy have built nine box filters to help push clean air into their classrooms.

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  • Denver students benefited from 11 years of reforms, new study shows

    December 13, 2022 |

    Chalkbeat |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Reforms that improved learning at Denver schools included easier paperwork for school of choice applications, an increased number of charter schools, and the closing of schools with low test scores.

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  • Program addresses food insecurity, teaches kitchen skills to children

    November 23, 2022 |

    The Oglethorpe Echo |

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    Response Location: United States, Oglethorpe County, Georgia

    Cooking to Share allows fifth- and sixth-grade students to cook meals for families in need. Since its inception, the program has served 78 families in the county, while teaching 2,000 students about cooking, food safety, foodborne illnesses, and cleanliness.

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  • A plan tackling segregated middle schools in Brooklyn shows some patterns are hard to break

    November 14, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    After Brooklyn's District 15 replaced selective admissions with a lottery system, economic segregation in sixth grade decreased by 55 percent and racial segregation decreased by 38 percent compared with the previous year. Though challenges remain in creating truly inclusive school cultures, parents and educators say community attitudes are shifting around what makes for a "good" or desirable school.

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