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  • An Honors College That Honors Grit

    May 22, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

    Unlike the honors colleges at most universities, the Honors Living-Learning Community at Rutgers University-Newark recruits students based on "grit" and commitment to social justice. The Community creates a supportive experience within the larger campus and focuses students' studies on issues ranging from civil rights to environmental justice. “For the first time these students are learning about themselves and about that corner where they come from,” an assistant dean commented. Honors students' freshman GPAs are on average half a grade higher than the grades of non-honors students.

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  • Phoenix Union helps with financial aid forms to get more students into college

    May 22, 2018 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    During the 2017-2018 school year, students in Arizona missed out on $65 million in free federal financial aid. The Be a Leader Foundation counsels first-generation and low-income students - during the inaugural year of the program, Be a Leader saw a 26 percent increase in students who filled out the FAFSA form.

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  • 15 Michigan prison inmates earn degrees from Calvin College

    May 22, 2018 |

    MLive.com |

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    Response Location: United States, Ionia, Michigan

    Calvin College recently awarded degrees to fifteen men living in a prison facility in Michigan. Proponents of the program say the program helps students reframe their hopes and expectations for life post-prison. "They've gone from expecting the worst to now actually believing something good may happen," the co-director of the Calvin Prison Initiative explained.

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  • UO's science literacy program cultivates scientific curiosity

    May 20, 2018 |

    Daily Emerald |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Since 2010, the University of Oregon Science Literacy Program has provided professors and graduate students with ideas about effective and engaging active learning teaching models in order to improve science literacy among non-science majors. Interested instructors meet weekly to discuss literature and research about teaching methods. So far, over 21,000 undergraduates have taken a course designed through this program.

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  • Kids Say #MeToo After Each Performance of This Play

    May 16, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Since the mid-1980s, Prevent Child Abuse Virginia (PCAV) has used theater to teach elementary and middle school students about sexual abuse and in the process empower them to report it. Over the course of 34 years, 13,000 students have disclosed their abuse experiences following a viewing of the play. “Many parents are very uncomfortable talking to their children about personal body safety because it gets all mixed up with the sex conversation,” executive director of PCAV explains. "The messages in the play fill the gap left behind by ineffective policy and cultural roadblocks," the author says.

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  • Nonprofits: Providing Education For People During And After Incarceration

    May 16, 2018 |

    Philadelphia Neighborhoods |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Nonprofits in the Philadelphia area work to bring education to offenders who are in corrections facilities, as well as those who are re-entering into the world. Research shows that, with access to classes, novels, and career resources, offenders are significantly less likely to be re-incarcerated than they are without these services.

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  • Britain's Studio Schools: when best practice met political reality

    May 16, 2018 |

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    Response Location: England

    In 2010, the Studio School identified an opportunity to expand a promising new model in British education - noting growing support for project-based and hands-on learning, the organization took steps to develop a curriculum and bring it to scale. However, eight years after the first schools opened, a third of the schools have closed. This article offers lessons for administrators and educators designing for widespread adoption.

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  • U.S. environmental groups are largely white. Here's what some are — and some aren't — doing about it.

    May 15, 2018 |

    Ensia |

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    A lack of diversity in the environment and conservation sector has been well calculated, documented and established, but the story doesn't end there. Many groups across the U.S are looking to not just recruit a more diverse population, but actually change organizational culture. "“We learned we need to be intentional about change, not just well-intended,” Jamie Williams, President of The Wilderness Society explains, as one group working to achieve this change.

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  • This prison beauty school preps inmates for a career post-incarceration

    May 15, 2018 |

    Today.com |

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    Response Location: United States, Chowchilla, California

    In a central California prison, male inmates learn cosmetology skills so they can find jobs upon release. The woman overseeing the program ensures the inmates get classroom instruction and hands-on experience working on fellow inmates and prison staff, but she has also become a mother figure for many of the men, who lacked that in their lives. Five inmates have gained their cosmetology licenses so far and they say the program helped them overcome barriers in the prison and in the community.

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  • Georgia State, Leading U.S. in Black Graduates, Is Engine of Social Mobility

    May 15, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Since 2013, Georgia State University has graduated more African-American students than any other nonprofit college or university in the country. Georgia State takes a data-driven approach to retaining its 40,000 person population, intervening at early signs of academic trouble. The comprehensive services are "meant to provide the kind of safety net for poor students that wealthier students usually get from their families."

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