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  • The exchange project uniting young Americans during the pandemic

    April 13, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United States

    The American Exchange Project connects high school students from different socio-economic, racial, and regional backgrounds across the U.S, with hopes to become the country’s first domestic exchange program after the pandemic. So far, 175 students at 39 schools in 14 states have connected in weekly online “hangouts” where discussion topics range from favorite music and other commonalities in the lives of teenagers to more serious issues such as racism. Getting to know people from different backgrounds has helped dispel stereotypes and some participants have forged real friendships with one another.

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  • Inside the ‘TA to BA' Educator Fellowship: How One Rhode Island Initiative Is Elevating Experienced Paraprofessionals — and Creating a More Diverse Teacher Force

    April 12, 2021 |

    The 74 |

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    Response Location: United States, Rhode Island

    The "TA to BA" fellowship is Rhode Island program is helping veteran TAs become full-time teachers while diversifying the workforce. Through the program, fellows enroll in college classes and are able to present their lengthy classroom teaching experience and turn it into a certification, which will also allow them to be better compensated for their work. Equity Unbound, which developed the fellowship, is also looking to get approval as an alternative licensure program to decrease certification barriers for Teaching Assistants.

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  • The Central Valley has a college graduate problem. Can this Fresno State program help?

    April 12, 2021 |

    The Fresno Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    The Reconnect Program in Fresno is helping college students pick up where they left off. The program is aimed at former students close to completing their degrees, but who left or paused their studies. Although the program is specific to Fresno State, it is completely virtual and eligible students attend 8-week-long classes, with full access to campus resources and advising support.

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  • PEAK program spotlights teens navigating COVID life, racial unrest, remote learning

    April 11, 2021 |

    Chicago Sun-Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Partnership to Educate and Advance Kids, a tuition and mentoring program in Chicago, provides full-rides to Catholic school for students facing economical disadvantages. The program targets students with average grades, and funds $40,000 worth of tuition by finding sponsors. Its current cohort consists of 47 students.

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  • In the wake of hate, the law is not always enough

    April 11, 2021 |

    Concord Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Dover, New Hampshire

    Hate crime laws apply to a narrow range of conduct, and often fail as a response to bias incidents that constitute hate speech but are not in themselves a crime. When high school students working on a history class project produced a video with a song treating the KKK and racist murders as a joke, the school and community responded not with prosecutions but with community dialogues to air differences of opinion about the incident. Students of color then formed a group, Project D.R.E.A.M., that expanded the conversations to the entire school, educating a mainly white community about the impact of racism.

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  • 'One generation away'

    April 11, 2021 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Tsaile, Arizona

    Diné College, the first tribally-controlled accredited college, provides over 1,300 students with opportunities to learn cultural traditions and the Navajo language, alongside traditional academic subjects. The school helps preserve the Navajo language, arts, skills, and customs by teaching it to younger generations. Learning Navajo traditions and language helps students make stronger connections with elders and they find the Indigenous philosophies that the school was founded on useful for overcoming obstacles, like finding ways to continue their education during the coronavirus pandemic.

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  • Black to the Land Coalition connects Detroit's BIPOC communities with the outdoors

    April 08, 2021 |

    Planet Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    The nonprofit Black to the Land Coalition is working to expose more members of BIPOC communities to outdoor activities and the healthy benefits that come with being nature. They have partnered with other organizations to help alleviate costs and they’ve done activities like archery, camping, and kayaking. “We’re creating opportunities for Black and brown people to engage in natural spaces beyond the playscapes and basketball courts,” says one of the founders. “We’re taking on the outdoor world, period.”

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  • ‘Race against the clock': the school fighting to save the Ojibwe language before its elders pass away

    April 07, 2021 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Lac Courte Oreilles, Wisconsin

    Waadookodaading is an Ojibwe immersion school that meets state and federal academic standards but does so entirely in the indigenous language by connecting children to their cultural heritage. The school goes through 8th grade and uses the forest as its classrooms where traditional ceremonies and practices are used to teach lessons. For example, students learn math while harvesting maple sap and wild rice and biology through practicing sustainable fishing and hunting. Community elders play an important role in passing on their knowledge to students and the 100 graduates provide hope for the language’s future

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  • A teen's death by suicide with her father's gun divides a small Missouri town

    April 07, 2021 |

    The Kansas City Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Sedalia, Missouri

    Seven teen suicides in one county over a two-year span prompted residents whose lives were touched by suicide to form DeFeet, an educational and advocacy group devoted to the message that suicide is preventable. Thanks in part to its trainings, public speakers, support groups, public education campaigns, and advocacy for gun safety, local schools now screen all students for suicide risk starting in middle school. A local health clinic now screens all patients and credits DeFeet, named for its annual 5K memorial walk, with creating "an environment where we are not as afraid to talk about suicide."

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  • Educators seek to spark systemic change by teaching Tulsa Race Massacre curriculum in Oklahoma public schools

    April 07, 2021 |

    OU Daily |

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    Response Location: United States, Oklahoma

    It took almost 100 years to expand education curriculum in Oklahoma to make significantly expand teaching about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Although the social studies standards in Oklahoma are updated every six years, they are now paired with a social studies framework in 2020 to serve as a “living document.” The state is also providing updated resources for teachers to incorporate these lessons in their curriculum for third to 12th grade classrooms.

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