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Nėrę į verslo idėjos paieškas, gimnazistai sukūrė unikalų produktą ir bendradarbiauja net su Šveicarija

Marius Jokūbaitis

March 02, 2021 |

Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) |

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Response Location: Lithuania, Klaipėda

Mokykloje vaikai sukūrė unikalų verslą, o partnerių rado net Šveicarijoje. Tai vienos Klaipėdos gimnazijos pastangų rezultatas - ten mokytojai ekonomikos pamokose taiko specialią metodiką, kuri skatina moksleivių entreprenerystę ir ugdo finansinį raštingumą.

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Boost Almajiri pupils in Kwara

Usman Aliyu

March 02, 2021 |

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Ilorin, Kwara

The Federation of Muslim Women’s Association of Nigeria enrolled 200 children living in Koro Afoju in a primary school near their homes. They covered the families' costs for Parents/Teachers Association levies and they provided the students with uniforms, textbooks, and other learning materials. The children live in a settlement that was established for people who are blind and have largely met their daily subsistence needs by begging on the street. Parents expressed optimism for their children’s opportunity to redefine their futures rather than joining their parents on the street.

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200 Schools, Universal Weekly COVID Screening: How ‘Assurance Testing' Has Kept Thousands of Texas Students in Classrooms

Bekah McNeel

February 28, 2021 |

The 74 |

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Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

Determined to keep San Antonio schools open, the newly created nonprofit Community Labs is running an assurance testing operation at a size and scale unique in the country. Used with other mitigation strategies, assurance testing actually does make schools safer, said Community Labs President Sal Webber.

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This Alabama school's mental health program is a model for the state

Trisha Powell Crain

February 28, 2021 |

AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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Response Location: United States, Florence, Alabama

School counselors in Alabama's schools are providing students with mental health care resources. Florence City Schools partnered with local organizations to provide therapists on-site, as well as social workers. "Currently, 97 of Alabama’s 138 school districts and all five public charter schools have applied for and received $40,000 each to go toward paying the salary of a master’s-level mental health professional to coordinate the district’s mental health efforts for students."

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Bucking the Trend: How 2 D.C. Principals Restored Black Parents' Trust in Returning Kids to the Classroom

Taylor Swaak

February 28, 2021 |

The 74 |

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Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

Principals in the D.C. area have developed tailored approaches to rebuild trust with families who are wary of letting their children return to in-person classes amid the pandemic. These approaches include close, constant communication with parents, including handing out personal phone numbers, as well as heightened transparency regarding the measures each school is taking to keep students and teachers safe, and one-on-one tours with families.

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Amid pandemic and 'new math,' kids aren't the only ones anxious about arithmetic

Meg McIntyre

February 27, 2021 |

Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

Among the chief concerns of parents and guardians whose children are navigating remote schooling, is keeping up with different methods of learning—especially when it comes to math. In New Hampshire, students and their parents and/or guardians are learning how to best support learning math, specifically when it involves methods unfamiliar to them. Parents and students can access teachers during virtual office hours, rely on support websites like Khan Academy, and attend school-wide meetings where they review the course material ahead of time.

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Monterey County kickstarts Youth Civic Engagement Program

Sydney Brown

February 26, 2021 |

Voices of Monterey Bay |

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Response Location: United States, Monterey Bay, California

College students in Monterey Bay are pairing up with K-12 classrooms to teach students about civic engagement. The college students are then invited to give presentations during class time on topics ranging from the census to environmental justice. The program is a partnership between California State University - Monterey Bay and the Monterey County Office of Education, and also helps students fulfill a required community service credits.

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How this Queens community built $1,000 college savings accounts for all its kids

Kristin Toussaint

February 25, 2021 |

FastCompany |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

A nonprofit in New York is helping communities provide economically disadvantaged children with a financial pathway to college. Kids in school district 30 are given $1000 each in a college-saving fund with initial money invested by the nonprofit and much of it raised through community members and businesses. The initiative was started to help bridge the racial wealth gap in the city.

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Foreign-born doctors fill physician shortages in the West

Jessica Kutz

February 25, 2021 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Nevada

A program known as Conrad 30 is helping some foreign-born doctors gain the ability to practice medicine in the U.S. by waiving the need for a visa. Although there are concerns about tying a visa to a job, many doctors have been able to obtain their citizenship and continue practicing in the U.S. independent of the program.

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This former residential school is now a centre for reconciliation

Paul Knowles

February 24, 2021 |

Broadview Magazine |

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Response Location: Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie has repurposed a former residential school building into the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre where students can learn about their Indigenous history and heritage. In the past, indigenous people were sent to these schools and stripped of their language, cultures, and traditions. Now, educators at SRSC are teaching newer generations of indigenous students rediscover their culture.

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