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  • What turns some children into criminals? A look into the effects of emotional trauma

    November 27, 2017 |

    News24 |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

    In South Africa, several programs help young people who come from backgrounds of violence and trauma find new ways to engage in the world through sports, or teaching empathy and positive communication. Others focus on parents of young children to teach healthy ways to cope with discipline issues. These are part of a wider policy push in the country to focus on restorative justice and early child development to short-circuit youth crime.

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  • How an Online Personalized Preschool Experiment Could Change the Way Rural America Does Early Education

    November 26, 2017 |

    The 74 |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Since Upstart launched in rural Utah in 2009, 30,000 children have completed the online personalized preschool alternative from their homes. Upstart provides participating families with computers and internet access in addition to planned group gatherings intended to simultaneously encourage students' socio-emotional development. Following Utah's success with the program, an additional seven states are now piloting the model.

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  • Changing Course: A School Cooperative Aims To Remake Coal Communities

    November 25, 2017 |

    WOUB Public Media |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Stanville, Kentucky

    In the rural, rugged country of Appalachia, towns like Stanville face some of the country’s most profound economic and public health problems. Some of these communities, however, are making remarkable strides against these challenges with the help of the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative, which makes schools a central pillar with entrepreneurial, innovative curricula, provision of health care resources, and hope and opportunity are restored in the post-coal era.

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  • This all-women's college is training Rwanda's future leaders

    November 24, 2017 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

    The Akilah Institute, the first all-female college in Rwanda, is empowering women to be financially independent through training in entrepreneurship, the hospitality industry and information technology.

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  • Training Rwanda's Leaders: This All-Women's College is Training Rwanda's Future Leaders

    November 23, 2017 |

    Under-Told Stories Project |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Rwanda

    At the Akilah Institute, the first all-women's college in Rwanda, students focus on entrepreneurship, hospitality industry, and information technology careers. The school, designed to accurately reflect the realities and needs of the private sector, recruits students from rural and urban areas, provides some financial aid, and works to dispel pervasive ideas about gender roles.

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  • The Dutch Learn to Welcome Refugee Students

    November 22, 2017 |

    Al-Fanar Media |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, The Hague

    In order to lower the dropout rate of Syrian refugees in Dutch schools, the Foundation for Refugee students launched a program called refugees@campus. The project pairs native Dutch students with refugees because they argue, connections are crucial to success. “Around 60 percent of refugees who complete a foundation program designed to prepare them for more strenuous study go on to enroll in a university. But 25 percent of those who enroll abandon their studies in the first year.” So far, 300 students have been paired.

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  • How one school is rising above gang activity to find college success

    November 21, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Benito Juarez Community Academy in Chicago was once reputed for gang violence, struggled to support its predominantly minority students, and was had been on academic probation for nearly two decades. A revolutionary approach to academics that uses a skills-based model tailored to the needs of each individual student and emphasizes true mastery of a skill rather than memorization and regurgitation has had remarkable success, bringing Juarez up to among the top 50 schools in the state for graduation rates and test scores and making it a destination school for students of color.

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  • Health leaders to offer opioid education to student athletes across Arizona

    November 21, 2017 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    Young athletes are particularly prone to falling into an opioid addiction as they are more likely to be prescribed the drugs in the first place. In Arizona, health professionals are starting to formally educate students on the dangers of opioid misuse and alternative mechanisms students might use to cope with pain or anxiety.

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  • How one district solved its special education dropout problem

    November 18, 2017 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Covina, California

    The Covina-Valley School District in California reduced high school drop-out rates and chronic absenteeism among special education students by providing a more engaging environment and curriculum for students. Students are divided into three levels based on their levels of cognitive competence, and educators rewrote textbooks and curriculum to fit the varying needs and capabilities of students within each level, as opposed to putting all special students in one level. Another successful approach has been to combine general and special education staff meetings and increase curricular collaboration.

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  • Hope through heartbreak - Farm and Dairy

    November 16, 2017 |

    Farm and Dairy |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Carroll County, Maryland

    Opioid overdose is a rising problem that is taking more and more lives, including Holly's. Holly's mother started 'Holly's Song of Hope' to help educate the public about drugs and addiction, to provide a support group where people can ask questions and support one another online, and to help make legislative changes.

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