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  • How one school is rising above gang activity to find college success

    November 21, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Benito Juarez Community Academy in Chicago was once reputed for gang violence, struggled to support its predominantly minority students, and was had been on academic probation for nearly two decades. A revolutionary approach to academics that uses a skills-based model tailored to the needs of each individual student and emphasizes true mastery of a skill rather than memorization and regurgitation has had remarkable success, bringing Juarez up to among the top 50 schools in the state for graduation rates and test scores and making it a destination school for students of color.

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  • Health leaders to offer opioid education to student athletes across Arizona

    November 21, 2017 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    Young athletes are particularly prone to falling into an opioid addiction as they are more likely to be prescribed the drugs in the first place. In Arizona, health professionals are starting to formally educate students on the dangers of opioid misuse and alternative mechanisms students might use to cope with pain or anxiety.

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  • How one district solved its special education dropout problem

    November 18, 2017 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Covina, California

    The Covina-Valley School District in California reduced high school drop-out rates and chronic absenteeism among special education students by providing a more engaging environment and curriculum for students. Students are divided into three levels based on their levels of cognitive competence, and educators rewrote textbooks and curriculum to fit the varying needs and capabilities of students within each level, as opposed to putting all special students in one level. Another successful approach has been to combine general and special education staff meetings and increase curricular collaboration.

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  • Rural schools unite to make college the rule, rather than the exception

    November 16, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    High school students in rural areas show lower rates of college degrees and have fewer opportunities such as not having a dual enrolment program that allows them to take college courses while in high school. Ohio Appalachian Collaborative involves rural schools working together to fight for grants and opportunities for the students in rural areas, and so far the statistics show that more students are going to college and are more engaged in high school.

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  • Meet the New Immigrants Reviving a Philadelphia Neighborhood

    November 10, 2017 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In Philadelphia immigrants are driving population growth in the Northeast region of the city, in neighborhoods traditionally occupied by mostly white, Irish-Catholic, senior citizens. The “number of immigrants increased from 26,942 in 2000 to 48,623 in 2015, a leap of 80 percent.” However, city leaders, nonprofits, and schools are pulling in resources to help the growing immigrant population, many of whom are refugees.

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  • They Can't Just Be Average

    October 25, 2017 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    The almost all-black student body at Ron Brown College Prep are met with an almost all-black faculty, cultural competent and responsive instruction, an understanding of the impact of trauma many students bring to the classroom, and a disciplinary system that emphasizes restorative justice practices over suspension. Expectations are high for each student, and teachers are challenged to provide to close the gap between where many students are and where they should be while still providing engaging work for exceptional students.

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  • "Stop the Bleeding"

    October 18, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Far too many students in Philadelphia are not successfully completing their university degrees. A new program at Community College of Philadelphia involves high school freshman taking the equivalent of two years of college courses to obtain an associate's degree, while also obtaining their high school diploma. The hope is that this will encourage students to go on to complete their university degree.

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  • Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?

    October 11, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Anxiety is growing amongst adolescents, possibly due to the rise of the smartphone. Teachers and parents are struggling to find help for anxious teens, Mountain Valley is a treatment facility that involves group therapy, exposure therapy and more to help reduce their patient's anxiety.

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  • How high schools break up the ‘ninth-grade bottleneck' to help students graduate on time

    September 02, 2017 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Acting on research that suggests students' freshman year grades are a reliable predictor of whether or not they will graduate from high school, administrators and teachers in Seattle are implementing new efforts to avoid "the ninth-grad bottleneck." With the addition of new counselors and tutors and close monitoring of students throughout their freshman year, schools have seen improvements in retention rates, grades, and test scores. One principal said, “Our aim was to create a culture where failure was literally not an option.”

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  • What happens when a regular high school decides no student is a lost cause?

    August 11, 2017 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Sequim, Washington

    Although trauma-informed approaches to education have become increasingly popular in alternative schools, they are still rare in traditional "comprehensive" schools. Sequim Senior High School in Washington State is at the forefront of this movement. In addition to its standard instruction, Sequim offers a different classroom experience for a small group of students who have endured significant trauma and are struggling in normal classrooms as a result. The trauma-informed school within a school has so far seen fewer suspensions and better attendance, but, still in its early years, faces myriad challenges.

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