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  • Giving Girls a Second Chance at Education

    July 07, 2016 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: India, Kodanna, Uttar Pradesh

    A special accelerated education program named Udaan in India offers a chance for girls aged 11-14 from rural areas to quickly complete their primary schooling. The highly interactive and engaging curriculum teaches girls language, math, environmental science, and gender politics. In 2016 the program joined President Obama's "Let Girls Learn" initiative to expand across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Malawi, Mali, Nepal, Pakistan and Somalia to reach 3 million girls.

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  • New CSU Program Gives Ex-Convicts Support to Earn College Degrees

    July 06, 2016 |

    KQED |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Project Rebound will create an office where formerly incarcerated students can receive tutoring, counseling on academics and financial aid. Seven California State University campuses are busy this summer putting the finishing touches on this program.

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  • Finland is really good at stopping bullying. Here's how they're doing it.

    July 01, 2016 |

    Upworthy |

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    Response Location: Finland

    Finland is tackling bullying with a national prevention program known as KiVa. In addition to classroom lessons and other resources, the program uses computer games to teach kids what they can do if they see bullying in progress.

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  • Tiny Interventions Can Help Reverse Our Sky-High College Dropout Rate

    June 30, 2016 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The rate of students dropping out of college or failing to complete their degree in the allotted time has soared in the United States, and experts are discovering that one of the causes is simply that students feel isolated, discouraged, and overwhelmed. A study by Ideas42 across a number of universities revealed that fairly simple behavioral "nudging" - or the process of providing tiny but regular interventions and encouragement through systems like text messages - can have a drastic impact on a student's likelihood of success.

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  • Taking The Personal Approach To Lifting People Out Of Poverty

    June 29, 2016 |

    American University Radio (WAMU) |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Worth, Texas

    One of the challenges is that social workers who help poor people typically have large caseloads of clients and lots of paperwork, often leading to burnout. The Padua Project is trying to change that with what they call “supercharged” case workers with manageable caseloads and the freedom to come up with creative solutions to problems.

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  • Syria's War on Doctors

    June 27, 2016 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: Syria, Aleppo

    In Syria, medical personnel are at risk of death as hospitals are frequent targets of bombing. With few medical specialists treating an assortment of injuries and diseases under the most dangerous circumstances, doctors began an underground network. This network installs cameras in hospital rooms to send pictures over mobile media to doctors abroad, doctors working on-site change their names, and animal waste powers the operations.

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  • ‘Microcosm of the city': Garfield High principal navigates racial divide

    June 25, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    After leading Seattle’s storied Garfield High School for more than a decade, Principal Ted Howard is having a crisis of conscience, wondering if his hard line with youth of color is hurting the very students he most wants to help.

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  • Is Estonia the new Finland?

    June 23, 2016 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: Estonia, Tartu

    Most educators and policymakers can rattle off a list of international educational powerhouses: Korea. Singapore. Japan. Finland. But there’s an overlooked member of the list: Estonia. With a focus on equity, Estonia has quietly joined ranks of the global education elite.

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  • For One Million Bolivian Adults, A Taste of School

    June 20, 2016 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: Bolivia

    From 2001 to 2015, the illiteracy rate in Bolivia decreased from 3 to thirteen percent. The drastic improvements can be credited, in part, to the national literacy program that draws on funding and teaching resources from Cuba and Venezuela. Although the initiative has taken on different shapes over the year, in its current state, 18,000 instructors work with rural adults in Bolivia on writing, reading, and math skills.

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  • To manage the stress of trauma, schools are teaching students how to relax

    June 18, 2016 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Trauma impedes a child's ability to learn as well as making them overly stressed, for children growing up in violent neighbourhoods this translates into poor academic performance. Some schools are now turning to mindfulness, meditation and other techniques to help the students relax and limit the affect trauma has on them.

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