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  • Does Mandatory Civic Education Increase Voter Turnout?

    December 04, 2023 |

    Democracy Works |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Since 2015, 18 states have adopted the Civic Education Initiative, which requires high school students to take an exam modeled on the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Civics test. However, researchers have determined that voter turnout rates did not increase among the target age group in states that adopted the policy.

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  • University students across Chicago influence schools to stock period products

    December 01, 2023 |

    ILLatinoNews.com (Illinois Latino News) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Blood Buds is a university student-led organization that works to fight period poverty by contacting student advisors to ensure period product dispensers across campus are consistently filled. The group also pushed the university to add a contact number to dispensers to students can call or text to let someone know the machine is empty. Currently, the university has 34 dispensers across campus.

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  • At Utah State, women climbers are ascending on their own terms

    November 30, 2023 |

    Amplify Utah |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Logan, Utah

    Utah State University’s Women’s Climb Night is a designated two-and-a-half hours per week when the climbing walls are cleared for women to practice the male-dominated sport with other women. This way, they can spend time in an accessible, non-intimidating, and non-judgmental space.

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  • Inside the fight to add gender-affirming care to university health insurance plans

    November 30, 2023 |

    Xtra |

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    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    Insurance provider GreenShield, in collaboration with university insurance broker Studentcare, provides lifetime coverage of up to $10,000 for gender-affirming care procedures not covered by provincial health insurance. This insurance benefit provides care to more than 200,000 university students across 20 participating schools in the country.

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  • How Detroit community groups are helping schools chip away at chronic absenteeism

    November 28, 2023 |

    Chalkbeat Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    To help address high rates of chronic absenteeism in Detroit, community organizations like The Konnection offer holistic support for students, such as resource closets stocked with clothes and hygiene products, Uber gift cards, and an after-school club with enrichment programs. Collaboration with community groups contributed to a 12 percent drop in chronic absenteeism rates at one Detroit school last year.

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  • CUNY sees ‘enormous' October application spike, as efforts to boost enrollment continue

    November 20, 2023 |

    Chalkbeat New York |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In an attempt to combat pandemic-era drops in enrollment, the City University of New York network sent personalized letters to seniors graduating from public high schools in the city and waived application fees for these students for the month of October. The network saw its number of applicants jump 386 percent compared to the same month last year.

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  • Native teachers build nations: More Indigenous people are training to be teachers in Arizona

    November 18, 2023 |

    Arizona Luminaria |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    The Indigenous Teacher Education Program at the University of Arizona trains budding educators to better support students in Tribal communities, with the goal of increasing the number of Indigenous teachers in the school system. Since launching in 2018, the program has produced more than 50 graduates.

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  • Undoing machismo in Colombia

    November 13, 2023 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    A city-sponsored program in Bogotá, Colombia, sends outreach teams to businesses and events to teach men to do household tasks and help them talk about their feelings. The effort aims to redefine what it means to be a man and undo the traditional idea of machismo, or toxic masculinity.

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  • Indigenous Gardens Cultivate Healing

    November 09, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Corvallis, Oregon

    Colleges like Oregon State University (OSU), are re-indigenizing the campus landscape to create a welcoming, healing space and stop the further erasure of Indigenous culture and presence on college campuses. OSU created an ethnobotanical garden, full of Native plants and crops, as well as an Indigenous center for students and staff to gather on campus. These gardens and Indigenous spaces help to show the community how Native plants can sustain people and OSU plans to continue improving its cultural offerings by installing Native signage around campus and holding Indigenous cultural burnings.

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  • A Navajo teacher is among the first Colorado educators to revive Indigenous language in the classroom

    November 06, 2023 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Durango, Colorado

    To better serve Indigenous students, Durango School District 9-R has created an advisory council for Native American parents, designated specific staff to help support Native students, and developed an Indigenous language course where they can reconnect to their culture by learning Diné Bizaad. Students report that the course is more engaging than learning about Navajo history via a textbook, and the district has shown progress in closing opportunity gaps for Indigenous students, with all of its Indigenous seniors graduating last year.

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