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  • This Woman Is Single-Handedly Eradicating Child Marriage from Malawi

    Abigail Haworth
    2018-07-24 05:58:43 UTC
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    March 19, 2018 |

    Marie Claire |

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    Response Location: Malawi, Dedza District

    Since beginning office Senior Chief Theresa Kachindamoto, tribal ruler of the Dedza District in central Malawi had one mission: To end child marriages. “In 2017 alone, the chief annulled some 200 child marriages in her district. During her 14-year reign, she has terminated the marriages of roughly 2,600 child brides and helped the girls finish their education, often by subsidizing their school.”

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  • At 25, Running Start is a success. Now it must attract students who need it the most.

    Katherine Long
    2018-03-25 00:07:25 UTC
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    March 15, 2018 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Washington state boasts one of the country's most established and successful dual-credit programs, allowing students to earn college credits while still in high school (at no cost). Some participants even graduate high school with an associates degree, significantly cutting potential student loans. Now the nationally recognized program is turning to face its own limitations - how can it increase access for low-income students, who only made up 5 percent of the 2016-2017 cohort?

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  • Getting a GED while still enrolled in high school

    Katy Reckdahl
    2018-06-26 01:42:08 UTC
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    March 05, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    The Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) partners with local high schools to reengage "under-credited, over-age students" who haven't graduated from high school. Counselors prepare students for the High School Equivalency Test and lay out an individual path for each student to pursue after earning their certification. YEP aims to reach young adults who have given up on education, sometimes for a matter of years : “We want to stop that disconnection, catch them before they become opportunity youth,” Jerome Jupiter, a former teacher who holds a leadership role at YEP, said.

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  • Oregon's graduation rate improves, driven by gains among Latinos

    Betsy Hammond
    2018-04-11 18:34:23 UTC
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    January 25, 2018 |

    Oregon Live |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    In 2017, Oregon saw an increase in graduation rates for special education and Latino students. Schools believe comprehensive absence-tracking systems and support services for homeless students are responsible for the encouraging improvements.

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  • How one rural Alabama district is closing the gap, raising scores for all children

    Trisha Powell Crain
    2019-06-11 15:13:06 UTC
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    January 24, 2018 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Alabama

    Closing the achievement gap requires raising the expectations not only of students, but also of leadership and institutions. In Pike County, Alabama, the school district has improved its learning outcomes by investing more in students and leadership, thanks to a crucial one-penny sales tax in favor of the schools. In addition to taking better care of teachers, the district monitors data at the student—not subgroup—level, and offers curricula with community college credits. The district has also launched an Advanced Academics and Accelerated Learning program.

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  • At this school, it's personal

    Paul Jablow
    2018-05-07 02:19:59 UTC
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    January 04, 2018 |

    The Notebook |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    At Lakeside School, the structure of the day is designed to support students managing trauma. These include activities before school starts, means to reduce excess energy by fidgeting, and ‘brain breaks.’

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  • Coping With Students Who Can't Cope With School

    Paul Jablow
    2018-05-07 01:52:55 UTC
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    January 03, 2018 |

    The Notebook |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    At Lakeside School, the student body is made up of young adults managing emotional and health challenges that make attendance in other schools difficult. The school environment has been developed to provide support for these students. This includes small classes, intensive counseling, and trauma informed education.

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  • Why Foster Care Students In Seattle Are Beating The Odds

    Anya Kamenetz
    2018-06-25 02:54:12 UTC
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    December 17, 2017 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    TreeHouse, a nonprofit in Washington state, achieved an 89 percent five year graduate rate for the hundreds of high school students in the foster care system it serves. This figure is a stark contrast to a 2010 statistic that found only 36 percent of foster students in King County and Seattle were completing high school. By providing the missing resources and guidance to students, TreeHouse hopes to expand the model to all Washington state counties.

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  • How a Tulsa 'failure factory' turned around its graduation rate in three years

    Amadou Diallo
    2017-12-16 17:27:54 UTC
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    December 05, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    In high-poverty urban schools student retention is a major issue, often school is the last concern for these children. Now, City Year and other nonprofits have university students come to the high schools and tutor or mentor the high school kids and provide a place for them to talk, as well as other measures that help keep students in school.

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  • In a Refugee Camp, Classrooms Open Up to Somali Girls

    Tonny Onyulo
    2018-07-29 16:52:35 UTC
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    December 05, 2017 |

    Al-Fanar Media |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Daadab

    Somali girls are rejecting traditional norms, refusing to marry early, and continuing their education at the Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya. At the camp they have access to primary, secondary, and some postsecondary education. “When the camp was established in 1991, girls made up only 5 percent of the total number of young people in education in Dadaab, according to the Lutheran World Federation. Today, female students account for almost 40 percent of those in school.”

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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.

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  • 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!)

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  • 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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