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Bright Spot for N.Y.'s Struggling Schools: Pre-K

Eliza Shapiro

January 01, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Bill De Blasio's citywide preschool program recently got its first grade since launching in 2014 - 94 percent of the city’s pre-K programs "met or exceeded a threshold that predicts positive student outcomes after pre-K." Now, the district must figure out how to ensure these gains are maintained into kindergarten.

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This deep-red state decided to make a serious investment in preschools. It's paying off big-time.

Kiera Butler

January 01, 2019 |

Mother Jones |

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Response Location: United States, Alabama

In 2017, Alabama was one of only three states to meet all 10 of the national recognized benchmarks for preschool quality. The state credits bipartisan support, a low teacher-to-student ratio, and high teacher salaries and credential requirements for its recent improvements. “We hoped that quality preschool would benefit the most at-risk students,” the head of the Alabama School Readiness Alliance says. “It’s surpassed our expectations.”

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In India, indigenous youths are filming their own forests and communities

Shreya Dasgupta

December 27, 2018 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: India, Rupa

The Greenhub project trains indigenous youth in India to use video filming and editing as a way to educate others about conservation in the region. Greenhub fellows spend months learning photography and videography techniques from successful Indian filmmakers, and then make videos on topics from endangered species to tourism promotion.

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Virtual Reality Helps Hospice Workers See Life And Death Through A Patient's Eyes

Kathleen Burge

December 27, 2018 |

NPR |

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Response Location: United States, Biddeforde, Maine

The University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine is using virtual reality to help medical students empathize with patients who are at the end of their lives. The technology has also been used to create other simulations and help health-care workers in training better understand their patients, but critics say that, without careful supervision, these virtual realities can create and reinforce prejudice.

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In Australia, drought dried up farm jobs — so government became the employer

Anoush Darabi

December 24, 2018 |

Apolitical |

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Response Location: Australia, Victoria

As climate change has led to more frequent droughts and volatile weather in Australia, climate-dependent jobs like farming are increasingly imperiled. In response, the Australian state government of Victoria launched its Drought Employment Program, which puts underemployed farm workers back to work on environmental or cultural projects of high priority for the community. These projects, like land regeneration, also help farm workers develop new skills.

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Ending violence in Pakistan starts in the playground

Edward Siddons

December 24, 2018 |

Apolitical |

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Response Location: Pakistan, Hyderabad

Using play-based learning and positive communication lessons, an organization called Right to Play helps school children in Pakistan act less violently toward their peers. The program, which is now replicated in 18 countries around the world, aims to reduce gender-based violence and stereotyping in the classroom.

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District sends teachers on home visits to help get more students to college

Peggy Barmore

December 23, 2018 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, West Virginia

A West Virginia town is using a federal grant to expand a preschool teacher home visiting program to high school students. "We’re coming to build a relationship with you because we know that you’re an expert on how your child learns, and we as educators can learn a lot from you," says the executive director of the program.

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A venture fund supports “model providers,” which have developed proven models to improve learning and shared them with many schools

Tara Garcia Mathewson

December 20, 2018 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States

Teton Science Schools, New Classrooms, and Summit Learning are examples of "model providers" - schools that have found solutions that seem to solve common issues faced by many elementary and secondary schools. Through the New Schools Venture Fund, "highly successful school[s are] taking a subset of what they’ve done and packaging it to get it to others in the field."

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One Arizona district has found a way to keep truant kids in school

Lily Altavena

December 19, 2018 |

AZ Central (The Arizona Republic) |

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Response Location: United States, Arizona

In Baboquivari, a small Arizona district, schools are in the middle of a multi-year effort to reduce high chronic absenteeism rates. By sending volunteers to students' homes, offering rides to school, and providing laundry services, the district is hoping to eliminate the daily barriers many indigenous students face in making it to the classroom.

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It takes a community to educate a child at Lynn Middle School

Sylvia Ulloa

December 18, 2018 |

New Mexico In Depth |

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Response Location: United States, New Mexico

At Lynn Middle School in New Mexico, local partners have joined together to bring social services, such as wi-fi, clothes, food, and health clinics, to students and their families on the school's campus. Advocates argue that these extra services offered are not in fact "extras" but instead essential components to a quality education.

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