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For anxious students, a teacher who comes to your house might be the answer

Robbie Feinberg

June 04, 2018 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, Farmington, Maine

To serve students who have dropped out of high school for anxiety-related reasons such as bullying or unstable home circumstances, a program in central Maine is sending teachers to students' homes with personalized lessons. The rest of the week, students complete online assignments to make up for lost in-class time. The home-schooling model has its critics and faults, but instructors believe the targeted curriculum will be worth it over the long term.

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Can ‘Tennessee Promise' of free tuition offer lessons for Seattle and Washington?

Katherine Long

June 01, 2018 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan looks to Tennessee's initiative that offers free community college education for every high-school graduate in the state. Only one year after Tennessee became the first state to offer such assistance, the college enrollment rate by five percent.

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The Power of Coaching

Jill Harkins

June 01, 2018 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Women’s Way, a new Philadelphia-based program, aims to promote economic equality through women’s financial empowerment initiatives. Based on a successful model in Delaware, the program uses financial coaches to help participants reach personal finance goals. It is also part of a broader initiative to decrease poverty while also changing the narrative about how people talk about the issue.

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Living Homeless in California: Dignity Is a Hot Shower

Dean Kuipers

May 31, 2018 |

Capital & Main |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

While Los Angeles works to build permanent housing for the homeless community, trailers have popped up around the city offering free showers and restrooms to homeless folks in LA County. The showers offer a sense of dignity as well as a gateway to longer-term resources, like substance abuse support.

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They're Out of Prison. Can They Stay Out of the Hospital?

Patricia Leigh Brown

May 29, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

The Transitions Clinic Network is providing healthcare to men and women coming out of prison. The organization, which has treated over 5,000 patients, hires community health workers to connect former inmates to health services. Since this population often leaves prison without access to proper healthcare, these services are keeping people out of emergency rooms and aiding in their transition to life after prison.

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Kalamazoo schools create “shelter in a storm” for students experiencing homelessness

Cynthia Canty

May 29, 2018 |

Michigan Radio |

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Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

To help its homeless students succeed, Michigan's Kalamazoo school district is using a comprehensive set of services meant to help homeless students achieve academically. Some of those services include free transportation to all magnet schools, partnerships with local community organizations to provide food banks, and mentoring programs for financially disadvantaged youth.

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Menstruation While Homeless

Julie Sabatier Samantha Matsumoto

May 29, 2018 |

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) |

Radio |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

Period is a youth-powered NGO that provides menstrual products to women that are currently experiencing homelessness. Thanks largely in part to social media marketing, Period has expanded from one girl's high school project to an internationally recognized program that not only distributes menstrual products, but also works to overcome the stigma that surrounds talking about women's health issues.

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School resource officer persists in changing student's perception of police

Theresa Cottom

May 26, 2018 |

Akron Beacon Journal |

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Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

A school resource officer in Ohio decided to persist with one specific student who distrusted police and deliberately avoided talking to them. Over the course of four years, the officer persisted in efforts to reach the young man and gradually the two built a relationship of mutual respect. That has changed both of their outlooks regarding how to address racial tensions between police and the black community.

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Can Portable Schools in India Keep Kids Off the Streets?

Puja Changoiwala

May 24, 2018 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: India, Mumbai

A Mumbai school located in a remodeled shipping container meets kids on the street where they are at. Signal School results from a collaborative effort between the city and a non-profit, and focuses on bringing education to migrant children, so that they are less likely to be forced into child labor or street begging. Signal School does more than just teach, it also provides meals, works with families to change the cultural perspective that education is an amenity for the privileged, and helps migrant families find permanent housing.

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The simple voting reform that raises turnout wherever it's tried

David Roberts

May 23, 2018 |

Vox |

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Response Location: United States

Voting is easy when a ballot arrives in your mailbox. Vote-at-home increases turnout in all precincts and elections in which it’s available. It significantly outperforms all combinations of other innovations such as absentee ballots, early in-person voting, same-day registration and election-day registration.

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