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School-Based Counselors Help Kids Cope With Fallout From Drug Addiction

Rachel Gotbaum

December 05, 2018 |

NPR |

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Response Location: United States, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

In order to deal with the opioid crisis, schools in Massachusetts are hiring counselors to support teachers and their students. In Cape Cod alone, 17 schools hired outside counselors, while 50 schools throughout the state did the same. The schools that are offering these services reported improvements in academic performance. "Their day runs smoother. They can get out their anxiety while they're in school instead of bottling it up, and then go back to class and continue learning.”

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How you can get a low cost computer in CLE

Homa Bash

December 05, 2018 |

WEWS-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Since launching in October, PCs for People have collected, refurbished, and distributed at an affordable cost to hundreds of people. They have also distributed hot spots to libraries for patrons to check out.

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Lego Foundation and Sesame Street Team Up to Help Refugee Children

Karen Zraick

December 05, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Bangladesh

More than half of the almost 70 million people who have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced are children. The Lego Foundation and Sesame Workshop are teaming up with organizations in the countries surrounding Syria to offer play-based learning programs that teach resilience and respect of differences for refugee children six years old and younger.

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Teaching Children Regardless of Grade

Alia Dharssi

December 04, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: India, Andhra Pradesh

In many countries, a lack of teachers leads to a common challenge - one teacher instructs students at multiple grade levels all at once. In the rural Rishi Valley region of India, instructors are straying from the traditional lecturing pedagogy to embrace a new "multigrade multilevel" learning philosophy: students follow "subject-specific 'learning ladders,'" with each lesson requiring varying levels of assistance from teachers. The method allows for a "personalized education that one usually associates with very developed economies" and "makes that affordable for low-resource environments."

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Finding the Magic in a Collective Model for Childcare and Co-Working

Melinda Clynes

December 04, 2018 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

In Detroit, a new collective is bringing together affordable childcare and co-working in one space. Families purchase memberships priced per household, instead of through the traditional per child model -- parents benefit from being in close proximity to their children while still having the space and time to complete work or school projects.

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How 'Buddy Benches' are making playtime less lonely

Dougal Shaw

December 04, 2018 |

BBC |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Ireland, Cork

In Ireland, schools across the country have installed "Buddy Benches," a space where children can go to let others know they want to play. The benches, which are built by volunteers from the Men's Shed, are part of a wider movement to practice inclusion and mental health awareness in schools.

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Guild Education's twist on college is working for cashiers, sales clerks and others who abandoned the idea of a college degree

Tamara Chuang

December 03, 2018 |

The Colorado Sun |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

By partnering with employers in the service industry and Silicon Valley investors, Guild Education, an innovative Denver, Colorado-based startup, helps adults in service-level jobs attend college at a significantly discounted rate. Some think this arrangement could soon "become as ubiquitous as 401(k)s."

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Madrasa Discourses equip tomorrow's Islamic scholars with scientific literacy

Aysha Khan

December 03, 2018 |

Religion News Service |

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Response Location: United States, South Bend, Indiana

In collaboration with Notre Dame University, graduates of madrasas in India are receiving additional education about Islam’s role in scientific development as well as a grounding in current scientific thought. In this manner, traditional education is being ‘refreshed’ from within by people who were educated by and are a part of the traditional madras education.

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Several colleges start programs to help foster youth earn degrees

Delece Smith-Barrow

December 01, 2018 |

The Hechinger Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

For the past ten years, the Seita Scholars Program has provided financial, academic, social, and emotional support to students at Western Michigan State University who have spent time in foster care. Each student is assigned a "campus coach" to guide them through adjusting to all parts of college life.

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What Burkina Faso can teach us about scaling up early childhood programs

Fergus Peace

November 30, 2018 |

Apolitical |

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Response Location: Burkina Faso

A pilot of a cash transfer program in rural Burkina Faso not only produced valuable research but, by involving government officials from the get-go, developed local expertise that was invaluable for the later launch of a national program. "The major challenge for scaling in early childhood is implementing a scheme nationally with the same attention to detail it enjoyed as a small, closely supervised pilot," a member of the World Bank team noted. This experiment offers a possible solution.

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