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  • Ontario celebrates diversity, but still works to close achievement gaps

    Part 2 of the "Equity or Bust: Are Ontario's Public Schools a Model for Pennsylvania" Series: Ontario has become widely lauded for its education system, celebrated for both high performance and relatively smaller achievement gaps between wealthy and poor students, particularly compared to the system in Pennsylvania. Keys to Ontario's success include celebrating diversity and catering education modules to the varied backgrounds of their students, as well as increased parent-teacher involvement.

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  • Trauma and transitions: How San Diego grapples with educating refugees.

    San Diego County public schools have a large number of refugee students and changes such as lowering noise levels (such as school bells) that triggered post-traumatic stress, reducing class sizes, providing daily teacher consistency, and integrating language and academic instruction has helped them feel more comfortable and fill the gaps in their education. Not all of the interventions have led to academic success, but schools are juggling very limited budgets to address the specific needs of refugee students, including extra English language instruction and counseling services.

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  • Solar roof tiles offer tech boost for Kenya's rural classrooms

    In Kenyan schools, the use of “building-integrated photovoltaics” (BIPV) acts as an innovative way to get solar energy to schools. Variations of these solar tiles have spread internationally, aided by companies like Tesla. However, the impact in these Kenyan schools means students can do school work after dark and benefit from consistent computer accessibility, and schools can better plan and budget for energy use during the school year.

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  • Teaching Teachers About Trauma Helps Kids Learn

    A new initiative in West Virginia is training elementary school teachers to identify signs of intergenerational trauma in their students and adjust their teaching methods accordingly.

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  • Virginia parents to receive free ‘baby boxes,' part of campaign to promote safe sleep

    The USA wants to reduce its infant mortality rate by educating parents about how to keep their child safe while they sleep. Baby Box Co has put together boxes for new parents with tutorials, baby supplies and a mattress, to help prevent infant death.

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  • How Julián Castro Bet on 4-Year-Olds to Transform San Antonio

    One of former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro's enduring and controversial legacies will likely be his Pre-K 4 SA initiative. The program provides hands on and play-based preschool for low-income 4 year olds, an approach often reserved for wealthy toddlers. In an effort to highlight the potential long-term gains of the program, Castro frames the plan as a workforce development program: “The best way to make sure a young person gets ahead is to make sure she never gets behind in the first place." Pre-K 4 SA will be truly tested for the first time in 2018, when its inaugural class completes state exams.

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  • The Afterlife of Big Ideas in Education Reform

    Michael Hobbes details the rise and fall of small learning communities in the early 2000s to tell the story of a larger trend in American education reform. "The decisive factor isn't the Big Idea itself--splitting up dropout factories floor by floor--but the millions of little ideas that hold it together," Hobbes notes. He uses this one trend to discuss common denominators for student success and why schools have repeatedly failed to effectively scale promising solutions: "Every successive Big Idea in education reform has ended up in the same place. It works for one school and doesn't for another."

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  • What happens when a regular high school decides no student is a lost cause?

    Although trauma-informed approaches to education have become increasingly popular in alternative schools, they are still rare in traditional "comprehensive" schools. Sequim Senior High School in Washington State is at the forefront of this movement. In addition to its standard instruction, Sequim offers a different classroom experience for a small group of students who have endured significant trauma and are struggling in normal classrooms as a result. The trauma-informed school within a school has so far seen fewer suspensions and better attendance, but, still in its early years, faces myriad challenges.

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  • A school where you can't fail - it just takes you longer to learn

    At Brooklyn’s Middle School 442, teachers grade on a color-coded scale and students frequently work on hands-on group projects and set personal behavioral goals. When faced with the myriad critics and criticisms of mastery-based education, M.S. 442 points to the rapid academic progress of its student body since adopting these new features - after only two years, English and math proficiency shot up.

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  • Finland found a proven way to combat bullying. Here's what it'll take to make it work in the US

    In Finland, an anti-bullying program that focuses on the whole class rather than individual bullies and victims and provides students with the space to discuss unresolved issues has been proven highly effective. Several researchers and professors in the U.S. are exploring whether the model could be translated to the American public school context. So far, concerns revolve around whether the approach could be as effective with a much more diverse population and with differences in funding and teacher buy-in.

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