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  • As 50 States Prepare to Reimagine Education Policy, Four Are Able to Offer Guidance

    December 09, 2015 |

    Education Week |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    The Innovation Lab Network (ILN) is a made up of a network of states that work collaboratively to transform their respective school systems. The ILN seeks to make meaningful systems-level changes in state education systems and they have shared their insights in four short films and manage a website with resources. The solutions emphasize local engagement and authority, extreme patience, and a framework that places the strengths and passions of young people at the center.

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  • ‘Early college' offers chance to achieve in high school

    December 07, 2015 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Pharr, Texas

    A growing number of high schools across the U.S. offer free college courses to low-income students in an effort to help them make the transition from high school to college and afford the rising cost of a degree.

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  • Fresh-made meals a learning experience at schools

    December 05, 2015 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Most public schools lunches are cheap, frozen meals, which satisfy federal nutrition standards but kids don't eat them so student performance suffers. A school in Boston partnered with a non-profit to test entrees that are cheap, healthy, and that the students like.

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  • How an ambitious new program aims to fight poverty and help kids learn, one block at a time

    December 02, 2015 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Arvada, Colorado

    To mitigate the pernicious effects of poverty on student success, nonprofit 'Blocks of Hope' in Colorado aims to provide both educational and social services to students and their families, with the goal of leveling the playing field.

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  • Chocolate gets sweeter: How consumer outrage is reducing child labor in Ghana

    November 30, 2015 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Ghana, Accra

    The cocoa industry’s worst child labor abuses are beginning to be cleaned up. The changes are, in many ways, unprecedented.

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  • A Daily Dose of Ecotherapy Eases Stress in Kids

    November 25, 2015 |

    Outside |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Ecotherapy is a term used to describe the positive impacts of using nature as a form of therapy for those experiencing psychological stressors. While this form of treatment is already being used to help veterans deal with PTSD, studies are also showing it may have similar benefits for children who are facing pressures.

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  • A fight to keep students in class

    November 20, 2015 |

    IndyStar (The Indianapolis Star) |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    Indianapolis' Howe High School has joined the movement surfacing in America's public schools towards restorative justice. In 2015, in lieu of suspensions and expulsions, Howe's leadership formed a peer justice jury to help fighting students talk through their conflicts and anger. Just one year after the program's inception, the school's expulsion rate decreased 90 percent, saving over 600 hours of what otherwise would have been students' lost classroom time.

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  • In class, out of court: How one school district triumphed over truancy

    November 19, 2015 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Spokane, Washington

    Traditional truancy punishments have done little to keep kids in school. One school in Washington state created a truancy board to investigate the reasons behind every student's chronic absences, and to make appropriate adjustments to meet his or her needs.

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  • A New Way to Improve College Enrollment

    November 14, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Long Beach, California

    A unique educational collaboration in Long Beach, Calif., raises college admissions and graduation rates for underprivileged students by connecting high schools with community colleges. The process starts by awarding high school graduates with a tuitition-free year at any Long Beach City College, as well as admission into California State University - Long Beach, if they meet the minimum requirements.

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  • Daddy & Me

    November 12, 2015 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A New York program bridges the word gap—the disparity in children's vocabularies—for children of the incarcerated by allowing their fathers to record themselves reading stories.

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