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  • COVID-19: Nigerian youth initiative leverages technology to provide low-income children access to education 

    October 12, 2021 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    Digilearns is a learning intervention platform created to deliver learning materials to students across the country through the use of mobile phones and doesn’t require an internet connection, making education more accessible and affordable to students, particularly those from low-income families. Since launching in 2020, Digilearns has provided access to educational materials to more than 1,000 secondary school children.

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  • Lauko klasės, atskirti mokinių srautai ir testavimas – Vilniaus mokykla išmoko pandemijos pamokas

    October 05, 2021 |

    Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) |

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    Response Location: Lithuania, Vilnius

    Per COVID-19 pandemiją privati Demokratinė mokykla viena pirmųjų Lietuvoje sugrąžino vaikus į klases ir sugebėjo užtikrinti itin mažą sergamumą. Mokyklos bendruomenei tai pavyko perkeliant dalį ugdymo į lauko klases, reguliuojant vaikų srautus ir plačiai taikant testavimą. Ar gali Demokratinės mokyklos pandemijos valdymo strategija būti pritaikyta ir kitose Lietuvos mokyklose?

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  • Mradi wa ‘Elimu Ni Sasa Initiative' Wasaidia Wanafunzi Kwale

    September 29, 2021 |

    RadioRahma |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Mradi wa serikali ya Kaunti ya Kwale iitwayo "Elimu ni Sasa" imewawezesha zaidi ya watoto 32,000 wanaofanya vyema na hawawezi kulipa karo kupata elimu. Kupitia kwa bajeti ya kaunti, watoto werevu ambao ni mayatima ama wanatoka kwa familia maskini wanahifadhiwa kujiunga na shule ya upili na kulingana na jinsi wanavyotia bidii wanasomesha hadi chuo kikuu.

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  • Exploring race and diversity beyond the classroom

    September 26, 2021 |

    Granite State News Collaborative |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    The Racial Unity Team partnered with Exeter High to launch Arts in Action: Spoken Word and Song Writing for Social Change, a project that got students thinking about issues of diversity and justice by connecting them with virtual artists-in-residence. The partnership allowed teachers to present their curriculum in a new way, integrating diverse voices and perspectives.

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  • This program trains Detroiters for in-demand jobs with livable wages - and fast

    September 23, 2021 |

    Detour Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    The Detroit Learning Center provides job training for in-demand roles that provide living wages. The programs offered continuously change and align with current employer demands to provide competitive opportunities for participants. Over 1,000 trainees have graduated from the numerous programs offered at DLC.

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  • As CMSD returns to virtual school, Project ACT ensures the needs of homeless students are met

    September 15, 2021 |

    FreshWater Cleveland |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Project ACT provides support services to 1,000 Cleveland public school students experiencing homelessness or living with guardians other than their parents. Students are set up with a life skills coach who provides emotional and academic support to cope with traumatic life experiences. To ensure stability during COVID-19, Project ACT distributed hotspots and Chromebooks to all 1,000 children they work with. Life coach sessions transitioned to Zoom, where weekly online tutoring sessions were also hosted. Students could also receive gift cards, enrichment packets, school supplies, and hygiene items if needed.

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  • Making the grade: B.C. tuition waiver program made education possible for hundreds of young people

    September 14, 2021 |

    Education Matters British Columbia |

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    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    The British Columbia government waives tuition at public universities for undergraduate students who grew up in foster care, a measure that takes aim at the disadvantages young people face after aging out of the child welfare system. Former foster children, who in British Columbia are disproportionately of Indigenous heritage, average lower high school graduation rates and have above-average problems with income, housing, and work after childhoods that often feature multiple moves. About 1,700 young people have received tuition-free educations since 2017.

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  • University degree awarded to student behind bars: his thesis on autoethnography is a survival story

    September 07, 2021 |

    News48 |

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    Response Location: Italy, Catanzaro, Calabria

    Magna Graecia University partnered with prison administrators in Catanzaro, Italy, to help two incarcerated men find a form of rehabilitation by writing their own lives' stories. In a process called autoethnography, the men, who are serving life sentences, focus on describing without moral judgment "the psychological and creative resources they used for survival before prison and during their time behind bars." This helps them see the traits that led them into crime might also lead them out of it. Both men tell of extraordinary personal growth through the experience, which others now seek to duplicate.

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  • Close-knit community in Port Orford and Langlois, Oregon

    September 05, 2021 |

    COVID-19 Data Dispatch |

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    Response Location: United States, Port Orford, Oregon

    Despite its tiny size and modest resources, the Port Orford-Langlois school district in Oregon managed to minimize coronavirus spread among students in the 2020-21 school year. A key factor was the partnership between the town and school libraries. Librarians prepared educational packets, sparing parents from having to scramble for materials. Schools and families dutifully followed safety guidelines while putting a priority on getting the youngest students into the classroom as soon as possible and preserving opportunities for them to play together. There were no cases of the virus spread in the schools.

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  • Personal responsibility in Andrews, Texas

    August 29, 2021 |

    COVID-19 Data Dispatch |

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    Response Location: United States, Andrews, Texas

    Thanks to a trusting and open relationship between school officials and parents, Andrews, Texas, schools kept COVID-19 infections under control when classes resumed in August 2020, even though virtual learning was hardly used and some CDC guidelines on quarantines and masks were disregarded. School officials navigated local politics over pandemic controls by emphasizing personal responsibility while taking precautions like improving classroom ventilation, intensive cleaning regimens, and keeping kids outdoors more often.

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