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Oakland's success shows how Philly-wide restorative justice could work

Jessica Blatt Press

December 16, 2021 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

Modeled on a long-running and successful program in Oakland, Philadelphia schools' Relationships First program uses restorative justice to reform school discipline. The program follows a three-step approach to changing culture. At its core, teachers and students deepen their relationships so that when they use group dialogue to address the harm that people have caused, the chances for healing are greater. Violence has dropped when it was used in one Philadelphia neighborhood in cases of serious offenses. In Oakland, expulsions, suspensions, and racial disparities are all way down.

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No Longer ‘Under the Radar,' Louisiana Black Fathers Group Looks to Expand ‘Dads on Duty' as a National Response to School Crime

Linda Jacobson

December 15, 2021 |

The 74 |

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Response Location: United States, Shreveport, Louisiana

Dads on Duty is a group of roughly 40 fathers who routinely spend time at a Shreveport, La. high school to connect with students one-on-one and steer them away from gang culture. The school has not had any large fights since the dads began visiting, and their success has been partially attributed to the fact that several of the group's members were already involved in the school community and building relationships with students.

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Utiliser le numérique pour faciliter l'accès à l'éducation: le modèle d'ecole au Sénégal

Matteo Fraschini Koffi

December 14, 2021 |

StopBlabla |

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Response Location: Senegal

Utiliser le numérique pour réduire les inégalités d’accès à une éducation de qualité. Telle est l’ambition de l’Ecole au Sénégal, School in Senegal (EAS), une plateforme de cours disponible en ligne gratuitement visant à aider élèves et enseignants. Aujourd'hui, elle compte 103 000 anciens élèves, 54 professeurs et plus de 3 000 cours en ligne.

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Nashville crea centros bilingües para estudiantes aprendiendo inglés

Chelsea Moreno

December 14, 2021 |

KXAN-TV |

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Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

La ciudad de Nashville creó centros tecnológicos para estudiantes que están aprendiendo inglés y sus familias durante la pandemia. En estos espacios no sólo tenían el servicio de un intérprete, sino que se convierte en un espacio para enseñarles a usar la tecnología, esencial para que los estudiantes pudieran atender clases virtuales.

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'A clear winner': How education in prison can help people after release

Paul Cuno-Booth

December 13, 2021 |

Granite State News Collaborative |

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Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

Correctional education opportunities provide a number of benefits: Skills, self-esteem, job opportunities, and lower chances of going back to prison. Educational opportunities for people serving prison time decrease the possibility of recidivism by 30 percent.

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Room for everyone: Tribal college expands its reach

Marisa Agha

December 13, 2021 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation, United States, Arizona

Tohono O’odham Community College in Arizona shifted its courses online during the pandemic and offered them for free to any Native student, expanding the tribal college's reach beyond the Tohono O’odham Nation for the first time. The college saw its enrollment jump by 96 percent — the largest increase of any tribal college in 2020 — and now serves students representing 55 tribal nations.

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La Salle San Luis: un espacio para las altas capacidades

Néstor Rodríguez

December 12, 2021 |

Noticias De Gipuzkoa |

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Response Location: Spain

Como respuesta a la atención especializada que puden necesitar estudiantes con altas capacidades, un colegio crea un programa que les permite profundizar en las materias que llevan día a día en las clases con los demás estudiantes, de manera que fomentan sus capacidades y evitan la distracción, el aburrimiento y problemas de salud mental.

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Finnish teacher who secretly taught IS children in Syrian camps by text

Joshua Nevett

December 11, 2021 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Syria, Al-Hol Camp

Children living in dire conditions in a Syrian camp were taught by a teacher all the way in Finland. Without stable internet or computers, the children learned via WhatsApp - using voice notes, messages, and emojis. The students were able to grasp the Finnish language, showing the efficacy of the remote learning experiment.

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Co-ops Stepping In to Solve Rural Internet Inequity in Noxubee County

Torsheta Jackson

December 10, 2021 |

Mississippi Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Noxubee County, Mississippi

A cooperative solution to provide broadband services to rural towns in the Golden Triangle of Mississippi is being funded by a federal program. The pandemic exacerbated the digital divide felt disproportionately by Black families struggling to access school, health, and remote work opportunities. Co-ops are member-owned, not-for-profit, electric companies that provide consistent broadband service to rural areas where big companies don’t operate due to a lack of profit.

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How can schools detect potentially violent students? Researchers have an answer.

Laura Meckler Hannah Natanson

December 09, 2021 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Virginia

Using tactics developed by the U.S. Secret Service to protect the life of the president, Virginia pioneered an approach to assessing threats of possible mass shootings in schools that has been adopted by an estimated half of all secondary schools in the U.S., and mandated by 11 states. Studies have shown its effectiveness, though it's difficult to know when something didn't occur because of a particular intervention. Multidisciplinary teams of school administrators, police, and mental health professionals follow a protocol for determining which troubling signs are evidence of a real threat.

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