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  • What One District's Data Mining Did For Chronic Absence

    May 30, 2016 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Grand Rapids, Michigan

    Three years after Grand Rapids Public Schools (GRPS) began its efforts to improve attendance rates, almost 4,000 kids who were formerly chronically absent are no longer. Educators publicly shared attendance data with business owners, parents, and other schools, helping to hold students accountable and keep them in the classroom.

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  • Infant Caregiver Project May Be Even Better Than Pre-K

    May 27, 2016 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Delaware

    Mary Dozier's Infant Caregiver Project helps shape young brains for success from their earliest days, well before they enter pre-K, by teaching parents how to form secure bonds with their children.

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  • He Survived Ebola. Now He's Fighting to Keep It From Spreading.

    May 26, 2016 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: Guinea, Faranah

    A doctor in Guinea trains health workers to halt the transmission of Ebola, but also must work to increase trust in and reliance on health care workers among villagers through a "community agents" network.

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  • The Town That Made Its Own Internet

    May 26, 2016 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Greenfield, Massachusetts

    Before 2011, 40% of residents of Greenfield, Massachusetts did not have Internet access. The mayor hired someone to help the town become its own Internet Service Provider, build out the necessary fiber, and fund the entire project without raising taxes. Dan Kelley, who oversaw the project, said “the biggest reason the plan in Greenfield has worked is because of the buy-in commitment made by the town’s residents.” The new affordable Internet is helping residents throughout the town stay connected.

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  • Why are so many children around the world out of school?

    May 24, 2016 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Central African Republic

    A new international fund will focus on education in countries affected by crises that have disrupted families' lives and their childrens' learning. The Education Cannot Wait Fund is a response to the often-overlooked needs for young people to continue their education when much international aid focuses on immediate safety and housing needs. The hope is this will enable children and youth to have a sense of normalcy and build healthy futures for themselves and their communities.

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  • The Indian girls' football team challenging stereotypes

    May 24, 2016 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai, Maharashtra

    An all-girls football team is challenging gender stereotypes and empowering their teenage players in the process. An international NGO named Magic Bus teamed up with a Mumbai-based women's collective named Parcham to find girls and parents willing to participate. After a slow start, the group now has a healthy number of players who are also both Muslim and Hindu. The process of becoming confident taking up public space and the fight to claim their spot back from the boys have given the girls more confidence, and parents are now highly supportive of their daughters.

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  • Challenged schools like East Aurora find a payoff in innovation

    May 24, 2016 |

    Daily Herald |

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    Response Location: United States, Aurora, Illinois

    School districts in poverty-stricken areas have discovered that there is a benefit to thinking outside the box. There's no magic bullet to lead students out of poverty, but there may be different ways to engage them -- and keep them in school -- as East Aurora High and other poor schools are finding.

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  • We expel preschool kids three times as often as K-12 students. Here's how to change that.

    May 21, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    A national study revealed that expulsion rates of preschool students - especially Black males - were startlingly high, especially compared to any other K-12 grade. The pattern was also shown to create a vicious cycle, exacerbating the likelihood of suspension in later grades. But a remedy was already in place in Connecticut, where a mental-health professional was kept on-hand to provide behavior coaching for teachers, drastically reducing expulsion rates. Seattle looks to replicate their model.

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  • Avoiding the School-to-Prison Pipeline

    May 18, 2016 |

    Jackson Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    A district-wide approach called PBIS, or positive behavior and instructional support model that focuses on counseling rather than punishment, has curbed behavioral issues at many Jackson public schools, and has even turned many into model sites of positive behavior reinforcement. It has also proven to keep youth from getting stuck in the vicious school-to-prison pipeline.

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  • Schools confront students' rising mental health toll

    May 17, 2016 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Marlborough, Massachusetts

    Over the last decade, many Massachusetts schools have seen the number of cases grow from just a few students a year being hospitalized for mental health issues to upwards of several dozen, often transforming guidance offices into de facto psychiatric wards, educators say.

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