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  • Meet The School Educating Homeless Kids

    December 13, 2017 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

    A private school in Oklahoma City that exclusively educates homeless children also provides medical services, clothing, school supplies, and parent counseling. Proponents point to increased stability for families and academic improvements for children, while dissenters say the approach is flawed, costly, and difficult to scale.

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  • The Talking Cure

    December 12, 2017 |

    This American Life |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    At Lyons Community School in New York City, there's a different approach to discipline: Restorative Justice. Instead of suspending students for inappropriate behavior, teachers, and administrators try to talk it out with students. They see kid's emotional responses as a long-term project, rather than actions that should be treated with punishment. "Talking is how you are successful." Some students say the method is working.

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  • Be Cool, Stay in School

    December 12, 2017 |

    This American Life |

    Podcast |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    Most jobs require at least a high school education, but 80 million Americans don’t have one, leaving millions of people locked out of the social economic ladder. In Rochester, New York, an organization called Pathstone trains people without a high school degree. They created an optics apprenticeship program, graduating 9 students.

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  • Tech careers in Kentucky: A future emerges after coal

    December 12, 2017 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Pikeville, Kentucky

    While many areas in Kentucky become increasingly less dependent on the coal industry, the state is looking for new ways to add jobs to the economy. SOAR, or Shaping Our Appalachian Region, is working to create jobs locally by partnering with organizations that provide training in areas such as coding and app development. This is part of a broader push to connect Kentucky to jobs, technology, and capital.

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  • Perfect match: website gives academic refugees chance to connect

    December 09, 2017 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Using a dating service model, a professor in Germany is matching local academics with refugees who were experts in related fields in their home countries. The hope is that these connections and networks will enable refugees to find jobs and remain active in the academic community, an option that is often stripped from immigrants when they move.

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  • Friends of the Children

    December 07, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    The organization, Friends of the Children, is dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty by giving at-risk children adult mentors to help guide them. The program results in kids who avoid teen pregnancy, graduate from high school, and don't end up in the criminal justice system.

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  • The push to find more gifted kids: What Washington can learn from Miami's wins

    December 07, 2017 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    In most "gifted" programs across the U.S., students are predominantly middle income and white, regardless of the variation in demographics between districts. Since the 1990s, Miami public schools have made it their quest to defy this trend and identify overlooked students who may be still learning English as a second language or whose potential may not be identified by traditional tests designed to find "gifted" students. In Miami, low-income and ESOL students take a different test than peers designed to account for certain stressors not present in other students' lives. Can Washington learn from this model?

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  • A Tech-Based Tool To Address Campus Sexual Assault

    December 06, 2017 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States

    A software platform, developed by a women-led nonprofit startup, aims to make it easier and less traumatic for victims to report sexual assault. In use on 12 college campuses, Callisto provides administrators and students with appropriate resources, and highlights patterns and repeat offenders. Since its adoption, the platform's founder says, victims are reporting incidents faster, making it easier for schools or the police to take effective action.

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  • How a Tulsa 'failure factory' turned around its graduation rate in three years

    December 05, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    In high-poverty urban schools student retention is a major issue, often school is the last concern for these children. Now, City Year and other nonprofits have university students come to the high schools and tutor or mentor the high school kids and provide a place for them to talk, as well as other measures that help keep students in school.

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  • How Effective Is Your School District? A New Measure Shows Where Students Learn the Most

    December 05, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Too often people use standardized test scores as the only measure of how good a school system is. A new measure looks at the growth and proficiency of the students as a measure of performance and may be more accurate in comparing public schools across the USA.

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