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Growing number of NM schools pursue restorative justice to keep kids in schools

Bryant Furlow

August 08, 2023 |

New Mexico In Depth |

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Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, New Mexico

More New Mexico schools are adopting restorative justice as an approach to discipline, which encourages students to reflect on their actions through mediation and structured communication. Since instituting “talking circles” to help resolve conflict, Cuba Independent Schools, which serves a large Indigenous population, has seen fights decrease and attendance rates improve.

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A School Where Children Correct Their Own Mistakes

Natalie Polakova Runa Koblihova

July 20, 2023 |

Transitions Online |

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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

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

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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How Philadelphia Kept Thousands of Tenants From Being Evicted

Aidan Gardiner

July 13, 2023 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A program that came about during the COVID-19 pandemic requires tenants to be granted an opportunity for mediation with their landlord if they owe less than $3,000 in back rent before the landlord issues an eviction notice. If after 30 days there isn’t an agreement — or the tenant hasn’t shown up to the mediation — the landlord can follow through with the eviction. This program provides tenants with an opportunity to stay in their homes and has helped more than 4,000 people since starting in late 2020.

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The latest cash-bail reform plan: Give everyone a lawyer

Zaid Jilani

July 10, 2023 |

NewsNation |

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Response Location: United States, Allegheny, Pennsylvania

In 2017, a Pennsylvania county court system began to expand its offerings of free legal support, and now in 2023 the county provides defendants with public defenders at all arraignments 9am to midnight. In the first two years of its more-limited services, a study proved defendants with lawyers were more likely to be released without cash bail. Also, chances that a defendant would be in jail three days after their hearing dropped. Research also showed, however, increases in some costs and one type of crime.

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At Alaska's prison farm, a different way of serving time

Michelle Theriault Boots

June 30, 2023 |

Anchorage Daily News |

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Response Location: United States, Alaska

Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm is a 640-acre farm, owned by the Alaska Department of Corrections, that operates as an alternative prison model. Select minimum-security inmates labor to keep the farm going throughout their sentence, producing tons of vegetable harvests (745,000 pounds of hay, nearly 5,000 pounds of tomatoes, 14,000 pounds of lettuce, 12,000 pounds of celery, 22,000 pounds of cabbage) and raising 150 cattle, 50 pigs and 300-400 chickens that produce 51,000 eggs—all of which is redistributed to other prisons and community food banks.

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How one organization is shaping future adults in Nigeria

Kehinde Ogunronbi

June 16, 2023 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos, Lagos

To prevent youth from participating in dangerous activities after school, the Crystal Innovation Center holds programs that provide secondary school students with soft and hard skills training to prepare them for future employment. The program runs three times a week and teaches skills like goal-setting, overcoming peer pressure, fashion designing, computer literacy, and cooking.

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For two brothers, saving Delhi's kites brings fame but not enough financial support

Geetanjali Krishna

June 15, 2023 |

Earth Island |

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Response Location: India, Delhi

A Delhi-based rescue and rehabilitation center for birds of prey, called Wildlife Rescue, is run by two brothers who believe every living thing has the right to be treated when injured — including the black kites many locals see as bad luck. The center treats more than 3,300 birds every year.

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Oregon community colleges see success in revamp of remedial education

Sami Edge

June 07, 2023 |

Oregon Live |

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Response Location: United States, Salem, Oregon

Nine Oregon community colleges offer “corequisite” courses that allow students to get help and review past material alongside required math courses rather than being routed into a remedial option that can slow progress toward their degree. So far, 68 percent of corequisite students have passed their college math coursework, as compared to 65 percent of students who took math classes without the corequisite add-on.

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