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  • How One College System Pushes Many Graduates into the Middle Class and Beyond

    February 05, 2018 |

    Washington Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Over the course of 50 years, a CUNY program called Search for Education, Exploration, and Knowledge (SEEK) has provided academic, financial, and counseling support to over 450,000 New York children. Economists are now following up on initial research that found the program helped propel originally low-income and low-performing students into a higher income level in the years following graduation.

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  • This simple solution to smartphone addiction is now used in over 600 U.S. schools

    February 05, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Smartphones can inhibit natural human engagement, invade privacy, or distract us from any number of things we need to pay attention to. So Yondr and companies like it provide ways to lock up people's phones, denying them an outlet for those urges to stay glued to the little screen. One school of many that mandates putting phones in Yondr pouches during school hours cites higher grades and lower disciplinary problems. At concerts, people pay more attention and are less preoccupied by the impulse to video everything they could simply be watching.

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  • California School District Explores Strength-Based Learning

    February 02, 2018 |

    U.S. News & World Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Galt, California

    Lake Canyon Elementary School in California takes a strength-based approach to instruction - teachers identify students' natural talents and create personalized lessons to encourage the development of these skills. "Focusing on the traits and skills kids don't have can lead them to become disengaged, while focusing on strengths produces greater levels of happiness and engagement at school and higher levels of academic achievement," one psychology professor explains. Teachers discipline by highlighting "a surplus of something good, not a deficiency." Can the expensive, time-intensive model succeed elsewhere?

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  • Coaches in the classroom: How Colorado preschools are upping their teaching game

    January 26, 2018 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    For the past decade, Colorado's preschools have used external coaches to improve quality of instruction in early childcare education classrooms. To address the high cost of this one-on-one approach, the Denver Preschool Program has launched a program to allow teachers to earn credentials to mentor their own colleagues.

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  • Oregon's graduation rate improves, driven by gains among Latinos

    January 25, 2018 |

    Oregon Live |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    In 2017, Oregon saw an increase in graduation rates for special education and Latino students. Schools believe comprehensive absence-tracking systems and support services for homeless students are responsible for the encouraging improvements.

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  • How one rural Alabama district is closing the gap, raising scores for all children

    January 24, 2018 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Alabama

    Closing the achievement gap requires raising the expectations not only of students, but also of leadership and institutions. In Pike County, Alabama, the school district has improved its learning outcomes by investing more in students and leadership, thanks to a crucial one-penny sales tax in favor of the schools. In addition to taking better care of teachers, the district monitors data at the student—not subgroup—level, and offers curricula with community college credits. The district has also launched an Advanced Academics and Accelerated Learning program.

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  • The F-Word: Financial Literacy Comes from Student Engagement

    January 24, 2018 |

    Pepperdine University Graphic |

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    Response Location: United States

    A student-driven effort at the University of North Texas (UNT) has become a model for other colleges seeking to expose students to lessons about credit, budgeting, and other important topics. The director of UNT's Money Management Center says of the schools diverse programming, "Financial literacy means different things to different people." Now, Pepperdine University, among other schools, is rolling out its own curriculum and engagement efforts with UNT's "one size does not fit all" approach in mind.

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  • A Root Cause of the Teacher-Diversity Problem

    January 23, 2018 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    In 2010, the U.S. District Court of Louisiana reissued a ruling originally given in 1975: desegregate faculty and fill open positions with qualified black applicants so that the black teacher ratio reflects the ratio of black students. Since 2010, the number of black hires has increased substantially and the achievement gap between black and white students has started to close. Northwestern University researchers are using this example to highlight an oft-ignored problem and potential room for a solution in the teacher diversity equation - biases in hiring practices.

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  • The Babies Teaching Kindness in Class

    January 23, 2018 |

    BBC |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    As part of an anti-bullying campaign in 1,400 Toronto elementary schools, teachers are bringing infants to the front of the classroom. Instructors ask students to identify the babies' feelings and emotions with the goal of increasing empathy and emotional awareness within the classroom. "A baby is a great unifier... Whatever there different friendship groups or backgrounds, they all share this love for Naomi [the featured baby]." Studies have shown that the program reduces aggression and violence in participating students.

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  • These kids are hoping to save Galapagos tortoises — and their own home — from climate change

    January 23, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Ecuador, Galápagos

    Tortoises as well as other species native to Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands are facing increasingly critical threats due to climate change. Thanks to a program that is embedded in the Galapagos school system, however, high school students are playing a major role in collecting important data on the species while also becoming experts in climate change mitigation.

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