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  • Technical and Vocational Training Lowering Unemployment Rate among the Youth in Rwanda

    July 12, 2022 |

    Mille Collines Infos |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    With unemployment high among people under age 35, Rwanda is emphasizing technical and vocational education training to help better prepare graduates for the labor market. The country now has 456 technical and vocational education schools that offer programs ranging from tailoring to auto mechanics to computer systems technology, with graduates reporting that the training has helped them find jobs or start their own businesses.

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  • One Small Step for Democracy in a ‘Live Free or Die' Town

    July 10, 2022 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Croydon, New Hampshire

    We Stand Up for Croydon Students formed as a backlash to severe school budget cuts that resulted from a lack of civic participation among residents. The nonpartisan group collected enough signatures to set a special meeting to overturn the budget and, to get at least 50% of the town’s residents to participate in order for a new vote to be binding, volunteers organized community members through door knocking, phone banks, and lawn signs.

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  • The new labor market: No bachelor's required?

    July 08, 2022 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    Employers across the United States are dropping the bachelor’s degree requirement from job listings, but workers need an alternative way to build necessary skills. The nonprofit Social Finance helps workers take time for skills training with financial aid for things like child care, rent, and transportation.

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  • Rural Literature Educator Helps Teachers Connect Students to Their Roots

    July 08, 2022 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Literacy In Place provides an online repository of literature resources that expand curriculums to incorporate rural identities, experiences, and cultures. Teachers and students at all levels can access book lists, lesson plans and activities that dispel negative rural stereotypes and assumptions.

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  • Health-related stigmatization is a growing public health issue, but this approach serves as an adequate measure

    July 06, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Sickle Cell Aid Foundation (SCAF) strives to increase awareness of sickle cell disease by providing handbooks designed to educate school children and staff on how to interact with others who may have sickle cell disease and make accommodations to meet their needs. So far, over 1,000 copies of the handbook have been distributed to 15 schools across the country.

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  • 1 out of 5 Irving ISD students graduate with industry credentials. The district could be a peek into Fort Worth ISD's future.

    July 05, 2022 |

    Fort Worth Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Irving, Texas

    In Texas' Irving Independent School District, roughly one in five students earn industry credentials and gain real-world experience through more than a dozen "career clusters" designed to help them enter the workforce after graduation. Administrators work with industry partners in the community to target in-demand jobs and continually update the courses to keep them relevant in an evolving professional landscape.

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  • Virginia prepares to launch its first recovery high school

    July 05, 2022 |

    Virginia Mercury |

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    Response Location: United States, Chesterfield, Virginia

    The Chesterfield program will be Virginia’s first recovery high school, open to any student recovering from a substance use disorder. There are currently at least 43 active recovery high schools in 21 states, with two more expected to open this year. The goals of the program are similar to those of existing schools and experts say the model increases the odds that teens will stay in recovery by making sure they’re surrounded by like-minded students in a supportive environment.

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  • Paul Quinn's focus on mental health helps college students through trauma, stay on track

    July 01, 2022 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Paul Quinn, a historically Black college, developed an exhaustive program that supports students’ mental health as a way to encourage academic success. All incoming students have a mental health assessment with a counselor and have free access to therapy and support groups throughout their education. Professors, coaches, and academic advisers also offer support or can direct students to campus resources.

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  • Staying with the same teacher benefits students, research says

    June 29, 2022 |

    Chalkbeat National |

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    Response Location: United States, Missouri

    When a Missouri elementary school experimented with "looping" one of its fourth-grade classes — keeping the students with the same teacher through the end of fifth grade — more than 80% of the kids met the school's benchmark growth standard, compared to 54% of students across the school as a whole. Staff said the students were able to form a more tight-knit community and were motivated by seeing an adult continuously investing in their success.

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  • A “Familismo” Approach To Latino College Enrollment

    June 28, 2022 |

    ILLatinoNews.com (Illinois Latino News) |

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    Response Location: United States, Grayslake, Illinois

    College of Lake County in Illinois is among other higher education institutions using culturally responsive strategies to recruit and retain more Latino students. Through offering counseling with bilingual therapists, hiring a Latino student outreach coordinator, and stationing college and career navigators in feeder high schools to guide Latino students, the college was able to increase Latino student enrollment by 27 percent in the fall of 2021.

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