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The Indian girls' football team challenging stereotypes

Priti Salian

May 24, 2016 |

Al Jazeera |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Mumbai, Maharashtra

An all-girls football team is challenging gender stereotypes and empowering their teenage players in the process. An international NGO named Magic Bus teamed up with a Mumbai-based women's collective named Parcham to find girls and parents willing to participate. After a slow start, the group now has a healthy number of players who are also both Muslim and Hindu. The process of becoming confident taking up public space and the fight to claim their spot back from the boys have given the girls more confidence, and parents are now highly supportive of their daughters.

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We expel preschool kids three times as often as K-12 students. Here's how to change that.

John Higgins

May 21, 2016 |

The Seattle Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

A national study revealed that expulsion rates of preschool students - especially Black males - were startlingly high, especially compared to any other K-12 grade. The pattern was also shown to create a vicious cycle, exacerbating the likelihood of suspension in later grades. But a remedy was already in place in Connecticut, where a mental-health professional was kept on-hand to provide behavior coaching for teachers, drastically reducing expulsion rates. Seattle looks to replicate their model.

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Avoiding the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Sierra Mannie

May 18, 2016 |

Jackson Free Press |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

A district-wide approach called PBIS, or positive behavior and instructional support model that focuses on counseling rather than punishment, has curbed behavioral issues at many Jackson public schools, and has even turned many into model sites of positive behavior reinforcement. It has also proven to keep youth from getting stuck in the vicious school-to-prison pipeline.

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A Solution for Bangladesh on Child Marriage

Liza Ramrayka

May 15, 2016 |

News Deeply |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Bangladesh

Two-thirds of females in Bangladesh are married before they turn 18. Recent research on a four-year cross-sector effort shows that when girls are provided with support, training on their rights, and career mentoring in girl-only spaces, marriage rates decrease significantly.

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How Colleges Can Again Be Levelers of Society

Tina Rosenberg

May 03, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Higher education has become a guardian of class division and privilege. But leadership can, and is trying to, reverse that and level the playing field.

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Students on the autism spectrum are often as smart as their peers — so why do so few go to college?

Meredith Kolodner

April 28, 2016 |

The Hechinger Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

A pilot program on the City University of New York's five campuses provides rare support, through group sessions and workshops, to students who are both on the autism spectrum and low-income.

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Guiding a First Generation to College

Tina Rosenberg

April 26, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Students who are new to America or lack college-educated parents often don’t know their options. Increasing transparency about financial aid systems and encouraging students to strive for competitive schools are some of the ways that first-generation citizens can get a university education.

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New App Helps Undocumented Immigrants Find College Scholarships

Mariela Patron

April 03, 2016 |

KQED |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Many undocumented students are often encumbered when seeking prosperous avenues to college affordability and DREAMer’s Roadmap app is changing that. The app, founded by Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca—an undocumented immigrant—works to help connect other undocumented students with scholarship opportunities by letting students search through a free database of scholarships, and sending users alerts via text, email or social media when new scholarships are added to the system.

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Meet the Scraper Bike Team of East Oakland

Benjamin Michel

March 30, 2016 |

KQED |

Video |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

In Oakland, California, a group of elementary and middle school-aged kids have banded together to ride bikes together as a way to stay out of trouble. Although the practice has a positive influence on the kid's physical health, and is good for the environment, it is also positively impacts the student's academics since a the "team" requires a certain grade point average as well.

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Building Trust, Note By Note: High School Band Program Integrates Immigrants

Armando Trull

March 23, 2016 |

American University Radio (WAMU) |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Maryland

In Prince George's County School system, two schools have offered international schools, which have a different curriculum for immigrants new to the USA. This has caused complaints and difficulties with the other students, the after school band program has helped bring the two groups together to socialize and form friendships.

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