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  • Can Teacher Residencies Help With Shortages?

    A small but growing group of programs in the U.S. are offering teaching "residencies" to college students. Students earn a stipend to student-teach in local schools in exchange for their commitment to work in the schools for a set number of years after graduating. Researchers found that 45 percent of residency teachers nationwide were teachers of color compared with 19 percent of all new teachers. Participants were also more likely to still be teaching in the school system four years later.

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  • Finding Recovery In College

    Collegiate recovery programs provide on-campus sober living, 12-step meetings, therapy, and support groups to college students in recovery. These programs help to eliminate the stigma surrounding addiction and give students the support they need to remain sober in an environment where sobriety isn't the social norm.

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  • Decoding the stigma around access to quality care

    Individuals with disabilities often struggle to find dentists that will see them, even just for routine exams. At the University of Washington Medical Center, dentistry professionals are changing this practice through the implementation of Dental Education in the Care of Persons with Disabilities (DECOD), a clinic that aims to focus on specialized care for disabled persons as well as educate practitioners on best approaches.

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  • In high school, finding new 'people, places and things'

    When mother Rebecca Bonner's daughter had to seek treatment for an opioid addiction after her freshman year of high school, Bonner was worried about her daughter returning to the high school where her daughter's addiction began. After two relapses, Bonner decided to open Philadelphia's first recovery high school. There are several recovery high schools nationwide that accept sober students to help keep them in recovery.

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  • Black Teachers Matter. School Integration Doesn't

    Only seven percent of public school teachers are black. Rafiq R. Kalam Id-Din II dismisses school integration as the central solution to equal opportunity in education. He shows instead that dropout rates for black male students fell by 39 percent when students had at least one black teacher in grades 3-5.

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  • How is Sweden tackling its integration challenge?

    Sweden has, and continues, to receive a lot of asylum seekers, leading to the need for successful integration of these new immigrants. Certain programs have been developed, such as one that when completed asylum seekers will be able to gain employment faster, or others that help young immigrants understand their new culture.

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  • Addiction doc says: It's not the drugs. It's the ACEs – adverse childhood experiences.

    ACEs quantifies the adverse event in an individual's childhood, as a means to treat addiction. Understanding addiction as resulting from past events helps to treat these individuals through medication and developing a plan to help each patient live a sober life without medications while de-shaming and de-blaming them.

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  • Sometimes the Birds and the Bees Get Short Shrift in School

    Due to school education pressures and time constraints, sex education is often limited or left out. Some schools have started using the 'Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program' which combines sex education, mental & physical health care, career training etc. and has shown success in decreasing teenage pregnancy and poor sexual health practices.

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  • Is This Tiny European Nation a Preview of Our Tech Future?

    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the small outpost of Estonia has reinvented itself as the world’s digital pioneer. Everything from paying taxes to establishing companies is done online and takes minutes. Lawmakers even sign legislation using digital signatures, not fountain pens.

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  • Israel's surprising way of teaching skills for innovation

    Israeli children are behind when it comes to math and science standardized testing, yet Israel has a large number of startups. This is most likely due to the Israeli culture encouraging innovative thinking, including extracurriculars that directly require creative thinking and problem solving.

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