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'Boy or Girl?' Gender a new challenge for schools

Martha Irvine

May 28, 2013 |

Associated Press |

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Response Location: United States, Tampa, Florida

Conventional school policies fail to address the needs of transgender students. A school district in Tampa changed its human rights ordinance to include gender identity and expression.

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A By-the-E-Book Education, for $5 a Month

Tina Rosenberg

May 22, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu, Nyanza

For-profit companies are making good private schools available even to Africa’s poor. They can do it – and can do it on an enormous scale – by hiring neighborhood residents to teach, and scripting out every word of every lesson on an e-reader.

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Transforming Schools Through Play

Allison Frost

May 21, 2013 |

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) |

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Response Location: United States, Oregon

Playworks, a recess-based school program, provides public schools with coaches who facilitate games that teach students skills for conflict resolution and cooperation. In Oregon, elementary schools across the state are leveraging the play-time as another way to elevate student behavior through this program, emphasizing character development early on in children.

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A Team Approach to Get Students College Ready

David Bornstein

May 15, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Blue Engine, which places recent college grads as full-time teaching assistants in New York City public schools, is helping poor students thrive in college. They focus on small teacher-student ratios, frequent feedback for teachers, and a concentration on 'gateway' courses associated with success in college.

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Home visiting programs are preschool in its earliest form

Michael Alison Chandler

May 13, 2013 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Manassas, Virginia

Through programs across the country, nurses, social workers, or trained mentors offer support to new or expectant parents, imparting skills to help them become better teachers for their children. Through regular home visits with the families, these programs are working to close an achievement gap between rich and poor children that starts as early as just nine months into a child's life.

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The Fight Against Sexual Harassment on Arab Campuses

Sarah Lynch

May 11, 2013 |

Al-Fanar Media |

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Response Location: Egypt, Cairo

Maps, art exhibitions, and online documents, are all methods in which women, activists, and students are fighting against sexual harassment on university campuses in the middle east. “It’s actually being broached as an issue,” Murabit said. “And speaking in terms of violence in general – whether that’s verbal harassment or physical violence in the home – on all levels it is being addressed whereas before it never would have been spoken about.”

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Making Adult Literacy Learning Sustainable in Rural Communities

Sarah Hasaba

May 08, 2013 |

United Nations University |

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Response Location: Kenya

Many of the issues facing underdeveloped rural communities stem from low rates of literacy. Researchers have found that cooperation between "formal and non-formal education systems" is an effective method in strengthening literacy programs in countries such as Kenya, Vietnam and Uganda. Collaboration between government and NGOs has led to increased and sustainable literacy progress in many rural communities where international development agencies, such as UNESCO, have intervened.

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Where Private School Is Not a Privilege

Tina Rosenberg

May 08, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

Bangladesh schools had very low attendance because children were kept home to work and conditions were unsafe for girls, ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities. BRAC, one of the world's largest and most comprehensive NGOs, has built new schools addressing all the reasons, at home and school, that were preventing children from attending.

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Inside Denmark's 'fixing rooms', where nurses watch as addicts inject in safety

Daniel Boffey

May 04, 2013 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

In Copenhagen's fixing room, drug addicts are able to take intravenous drugs through the supervision of nurses. The room provides a clean environment with sterile needles that can be disposed of. Since it opened, there were 36,000 injections, accounting for 350 syringes being used a day, and 1,000 regular attendees. “The philosophy is that we can't change people, people can change themselves and we can be there when they want to change."

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Young Movers, With a Passion for Change

David Bornstein

May 01, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Young people are often viewed as needing protection or needing correction. However, a Boston organization is creating young peacemakers and powerful change makers by taking kids seriously and giving them the tools to act on their ideas.

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