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  • Fab Youth Philly gives teens first-time job experiences otherwise in short supply

    October 28, 2025 |

    Kensington Voice |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Fab Youth Philly’s Play Captains program hires teens in the summer to lead play groups on multiple streets throughout the city, leading games and activities like science experiments and storytime. Since 2017, the group has supported over 500 teens, providing many of them with their first jobs. Data shows that participating in the program leads to more on-time high school graduations, better work habits, reduced summer slide and improved employability and family finances.

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  • Las dos caras de la IA: cómo se usa para ejercer violencia digital contra menores y cómo puede ser parte de la solución (aunque aún tiene limitaciones)

    September 22, 2025 |

    Maldita.es |

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    Response Location: Spain

    Chatbots de IA como Sof-IA y programas educativos como E-tic están ayudando a menores españoles a gestionar el malestar emocional derivado de la violencia digital y a desarrollar pensamiento crítico para identificar y responder ante contenidos manipulados con inteligencia artificial.

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  • How Do We Keep Children Safe from Online Violence and the Challenges of AI

    September 18, 2025 |

    Scena9 |

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    Response Location: Romania

    In an effort to address online violence children face in the digital age, initiatives across several countries, including Spain, Romania, and Ukraine, are getting creative using theatre, media literacy training on AI and algorithms, anonymous reporting hotlines and classroom phone bans, among other strategies to help youth cope. The various initiatives have proven successful. For example, the school-wide phone ban in one Spain region resulted in a 27.42% decrease in cyberharassment cases between 2023-2024.

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  • The Anarchic Playgrounds Where Putting Kids At Risk Is The Point

    September 04, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Adventure playgrounds such as Berlin’s Kolle 37 put kids in charge of play, giving them the space, tools, and freedom to solve conflicts, learn new skills, and even build their own play structures as adults monitor for hazards from a distance. Research shows that this type of “risky play” can help children mature and learn to navigate complex psychosocial situations.

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  • A wave of Massachusetts students embrace unschooling, self-directed learning

    August 15, 2025 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Sunderland, Massachusetts

    Self-directed learning centers in Massachusetts, such as North Star, provide an alternative for students who don't thrive in traditional schools. These centers allow homeschooled students to pursue their own interests through optional classes, tutoring, and community activities, with no mandatory attendance or standardized curriculum requirements. North Star has operated successfully for 30 years, growing from a handful of students to 65 expected enrollees in the coming school year.

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  • Can we undo extinction? A growing effort to restore lost sharks

    August 13, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Raja Ampat

    ReShark, the world's first shark rewilding program, has successfully transported surplus leopard shark eggs from aquariums to community-managed hatcheries in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, releasing 43 healthy juveniles that are surviving in the wild and demonstrating a replicable model for reversing marine extinctions through international collaboration and local stewardship.

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  • How Finland is preparing its citizens for a world swamped by fake news

    July 24, 2025 |

    Development and Cooperation |

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    Response Location: Finland

    Finland’s National Core Curriculum incorporates “multiliteracy” across all subject areas, and students begin learning about misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation from their first year in school. The country has consistently ranked first in the European Media Literacy Index.

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  • 'No Easy Thing': Rebuilding Hope In Conflict-Stricken Nigeria

    July 24, 2025 |

    Religion Unplugged |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Plateau State

    The Claire Aid Foundation works to bridge the literacy gap in Jebbu Miango by hosting after-school classes in a newly created library in the area. About 350 children attend the after-school programs during the week where they’re taught basic grammar. The group also offers summer school programming, where students are taught more vocational skills like bead-making, tailoring, and pastry making.

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  • How One School Turned Career Training Into a Turnaround Strategy

    July 17, 2025 |

    Education Week |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    DeWitt Clinton High School offers formal career pathway programs that allow students to gain real-world work experience and sometimes even earn industry credentials while completing their high school diploma requirements. There are pathways available for everything from visual arts to agriculture to health care careers, and the high school has seen its graduation numbers go up and absenteeism rates drop since establishing the programs.

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  • High school speech and debate allows students to find common ground

    July 08, 2025 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    Through the National Speech and Debate Association, students across the country learn to research and argue positions on pressing issues, from the justness of violent revolution to approaches to immigration policy. In a time of political turmoil, participants and coaches report that competing in speech and debate helps students recognize the complexity of societal issues and be more open to differing opinions and perspectives.

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