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  • Teaching Children Regardless of Grade

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

    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

    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

    December 01, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    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

    November 30, 2018 |

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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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  • Keeping It Local

    November 29, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In Philadelphia, a program based on a similar initiative in Cleveland is on its way to success. PAGE (Philadelphia Anchors for Growth & Equity) will direct spending from large institutions locally. Specifically, it will work with anchor institutions like the universities in town and fill gaps, like building a laundry facility that will create jobs and fill the need by places like Jefferson Health and Penn Medicine. Job creation is what will keep this organization and the city of Philadelphia going.

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  • Teacher leaders improve learning, attract teachers to underserved districts

    November 29, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Edgecombe, North Carolina

    A school district in North Carolina is at the cutting edge of a new teaching model - to multiply the impact of the most effective teachers and draw them to underserved districts, schools are paying these teachers more to coach their colleagues in addition to continuing to teach their own classrooms. So far, 50,000 students across the country are learning under the "teacher-leader" model.

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  • In 30 seconds: How Rochester seventh-graders crushed Regents algebra

    November 29, 2018 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    Nathaniel Rochester Community School 3 in the Rochester City School District in New York has a record of poor academic achievement, but a special accelerated summer math program had 16 seventh graders pass the Regents algebra test. Students and administrators attribute the success to having the program focus on acceleration rather than remediation and the genuine support from the teachers for the students.

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  • On college campuses, planning for a post-Millennial future

    November 28, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    The University of Maryland - Baltimore County is known for its higher number of masters and doctoral graduates of color, and for having the greatest number of black graduates with a combined MD-PhD in the country. The school has made a concerted effort to acknowledge the changing demographics of college students and is leading university-specific efforts to promote and support diversity.

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  • Schools use yoga to improve behavior

    November 28, 2018 |

    KMGH-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Schools around the world are increasingly teaching yoga as a stress management tool. And students are responding enthusiastically -- in one district, over 70 percent of kids chose to also use the techniques at home.

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