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  • Sweden's Forum Skill: Looking Beyond Language Barriers To Foster A Diverse Workforce

    April 26, 2020 |

    The Oslo Desk |

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    Response Location: Sweden

    The Swedish organization Forum Skill works to address labor market exclusion for immigrants and people with disabilities and immigrants, providing workplace-based Swedish language training programs and hands-on work experience outside of a traditional classroom that helps prepare participants to be successful in the workplace.

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  • Community Colleges across the state offering more than education to students during pandemic

    April 26, 2020 |

    Manchester Ink Link |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    When schools had to shut down in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, community colleges across New Hampshire found ways to accommodate and aid their students through the pandemic. Lakes Region Community College helped its culinary students complete their cooking lesson by offering meal box pick up for them to prepare at home. At River Valley Community College, students can set up appointments to pick up supplies from the food pantry, and five of the seven colleges in the state have offered students free access to online counseling portals.

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  • How School Districts Are Outsmarting a Microbe

    April 23, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Schools across the United States are patching together solutions in the aftermath of the mass migration to online learning brought on by COVID-19. Wi-Fi hotspots, webinars with parents, and office hours are the new normal. But teachers and administrators insist it is important to set realistic goals and not put place much pressure on themselves or students.

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  • How Cellphones Can Keep People Learning Around The World

    April 22, 2020 |

    WBFO |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    A platform that allows students to receive lessons via text message is being used to complement education efforts in Uganda. In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, one such texting platform has partnered with nonprofits to offer a free WhatsApp course "that covers coronavirus facts and health information."

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  • Rhode Island's successful reopening of child-care programs shows ‘there is a path,' CDC director says

    April 21, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    A CDC study of Rhode-Island childcare centers revealed that out of the 666 childcare centers that were opened, only four had cases that involved the spread of the virus. That’s because of the strict adherence to safety guidelines such as minimum enrollment, no switching of students between groups, and mask wearing. CDC officials believe this is evidence that reopening of child care is possible if the right precautions are taken.

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  • Low tech solutions for students without internet access at home

    April 19, 2020 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    As schools have gone online during the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers and administrators are finding low-tech ways to deliver educational lessons to the students without access to remote learning tools, such as basic internet. A few of the initial innovations include broadcasting lessons on TV, distributing printed packets, and curbside library book delivery.

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  • In Denmark, the Rarest of Sights: Classrooms Full of Students

    April 17, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Denmark, Løgumkloster

    As the world progresses through the pandemic, many countries are trying to best address the tough question of when to open back up and how. In Logumkloster, Denmark, which had no known cases of COVID-19, the village's elementary school welcomed back close to 350 students to its physical building with extensive safety and cleaning protocols in place to protect students and teachers. From an economic standpoint, the decision stands to benefit parents working from home, but some worry about the potential health implications—and it may be too soon to tell what those will be.

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  • Daring to Be Different in Czechia

    April 11, 2020 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic, Trmice, Bohemia

    In some regions of Czechia, “one in 10 children fails to advance to the next grade.” Every year 2,000 students drop out. One school in the town of Trmice doesn’t have this problem. The school has low dropout rates and the number of students going on to university keeps growing. Their model of empathy, understanding, avoiding punishment, and establishing deep-rooted relationships with families and students is working. “To react with understanding.” “Trmice’s success depends on two things: good communication with families and work with the teaching staff.”

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  • 코로나 휴교령에… ‘온라인 원격교육' 실험 시작한 유럽[글로벌 현장을 가다]

    April 09, 2020 |

    동아일보 |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    휴교령이 장기화 되면서 유럽 주요국들은 온라인 교육을 대안책으로 삼고 새로운 시도들을 단행하고 있습니다. 기술 접근성 격차로 인한 혼란 등을 최소화하면서 일방향 교육 시스템을 어떻게 개선할 수 있는지에 대한 고민들이 함께 부각되고 있습니다.

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  • Glendale Community College's mobile food pantry meets a rising wave of need during pandemic

    April 09, 2020 |

    Glendale News-Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Glendale, California

    California’s Glendale Community College normally operates a food pantry, called Food for Thought Pantry, for its students. Forced to close to slow the spread of COVID-19, it partnered with the Los Angeles Food Bank and the Glendale Community College charitable foundation to create a mobile food pantry for students and their families. Collecting food from farmers, wholesalers, grocers, growers, and distributors, they served a line of over 1,000 vehicles in April.

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