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  • The Sea Creature That Saved a School (How Lobsters Are Keeping Students in School)

    Deer Isle, Maine, struggled to keep students in school; many students felt that a diploma was unnecessary, since they could drop out and join the lobster fishing industry. But the local high school found a creative solution to keep students engaged and ensure more opportunities in what can be a volatile industry. They redesigned courses to suit the interests of students, moving to project-based learning that explores traditional academic topics through fishing and marine themes, such as studying geometry through boat building. The approach has helped increase graduation rates by more than 30 percent.

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  • Impact of Chicago's violence on girls in toughest neighborhoods often overlooked

    Girls in Chicago's toughest neighborhoods face extensive danger on a daily basis. Not enough is being done to help girls so that they do not engage in violence or self-harm. Programs such as the Urban Warrior Program, Demoiselle 2 Femme, and the juvenile justice system are implementing programs tailored to understand the issues for girls in this community and to then provide mentoring and education.

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  • Sex ed program goes far beyond sex, succeeds by meeting basic needs

    Research has shown that when young people have their basic needs met and feel positive about their futures, they are less likely to engage in risky behaviors. The Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program has reduced pregnancy rates by 40 percent in New York by meeting teens educational, emotional, and employment needs.

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  • Teacher border battle

    Just 20 miles from Oklahoma, which has gotten national attention for teacher protests about low pay, Lincoln, Nebraska's schools are raising the bar by paying $10,000 more in annual wages. How are conditions for teachers so different in adjacent towns with such similar profiles?

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  • Memphis Looks to Medical Manufacturing to Cut Poverty

    A just-announced $6 million federal grant will help end poverty in Memphis, Tennessee.

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  • Our children: Puppet pals teach children resiliency, social skills

    Preschoolers have a lot of strong emotions and tend to internalize whatever they're surrounded by which puts kids from stressful homes at a disadvantage. Al’s Pals is a national elementary curriculum that develops young children's social-emotional and problem-solving skills through puppet shows.

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  • The Arts of Medicine

    Medical students are trained in medicine but rarely encouraged to develop their personal skills. The University of Washington School of Medicine requires their students to take a course, “Daily Dose of Humanities,” which is intended to help physicians connect with their patients, remember why they wanted to become a doctor, and provide stress coping tactics, through all forms of the arts.

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  • Hard time software: Why these prisoners learn computer coding

    The USA has one of the highest rates of incarceration, and reoffending is a likely outcome after prison. 'The Last Mile' and similar programs are providing inmates with the opportunity to learn marketable skills and earn degrees while in prison, and then find jobs once their sentence is finished, in order to decrease the likelihood of reoffending.

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  • First-in-the nation school program turns boys into strong black men

    In schools, young black males are considered the group in most need, but often they receive pity instead of empowerment. Through character education, academic mentoring, motivating psychology and afro-centric curriculum, the Manhood Development Project in Oakland is increasing graduation rates and lowering the number of run-ins with the law.

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  • How do you prepare for the next job? Go back to school...often

    The Pennsylvania College of Technology is preparing the workforce - and not just undergrad or graduate students - for dynamic and evolving industries through a "stackable credential" model. Built like a Lego pyramid, the program moves from foundational skills, such as applied mathematics, to industry certifications, and on to advanced degrees in a more accessible format to students who are already working full time and/or raising a family and need flexibility.

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