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Project Oklahoma: New activity-based learning program helping elementary students

Maureen Wurtz

January 21, 2020 |

KTUL-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

What if kids were allowed to bounce on yoga balls or draw while they were learning to read? Some teachers and researchers in Oklahoma believe "action-based learning" can help students with behavioral challenges.

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Privilege for the poor: Farming giant gives back — to its workers' children

Alfonso Serrano

January 18, 2020 |

The Hechinger Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Lost Hills, California

Owners of the Wonderful Company food conglomerate honed their philanthropic efforts on the community they saw had the most need—their own workers' families—by establishing charter schools to improve the quality of life and education in Lost Hills, California. The K-8 school, one of two, has adopted a "cradle to career'' approach, incentivizing college education through in-school college pathways and renewable college scholarships after completing high school, and integrating parents into its mission through tailored educational sessions aimed at bridging cultural divides.

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Charter operators are offering online degrees as a plan B for their alumni

Kalyn Belsha

January 08, 2020 |

Chalkbeat National |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

In addition to encouraging students to pursue higher education, charter school networks have started to follow up with alumni who end up dropping out of college, offering them alternative paths to a degree, such as online classes.

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In depopulating Baltics, Lithuanian school adopts unorthodox approach to survive

Urtė Korsakovaitė

January 07, 2020 |

Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) |

Multi-Media |

Under 800 Words

Response Location: Lithuania, Rumšiškės

Facing competition from urban schools, a rural school in Lithuania is taking an alternative approach to teaching. The school has shifted its instruction to be student-centric and address individual student's needs, dividing students based on performance, and assigning tutors to focus on social needs. The school has achieved a ranking of 58th place in the country, scoring higher than many larger city schools.

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What School Could Be If It Were Designed for Kids With Autism

Kristina Rizga

December 30, 2019 |

The Atlantic |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

New York University and the New York City Department of Education are training elementary school teachers to use visual cues and other tools to teach students with autism spectrum disorder. The approach is unique for its emphasis on social skills in addition to academic lessons.

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School network takes turbocharged approach to education for refugee students

Aaricka Washington

December 23, 2019 |

The Hechinger Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

Fugees Academy, with schools in Ohio and Georgia, offers specialized and trauma-informed instruction for refugee students. The school aims to get students up to speed with accelerated English instruction.

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Can a diverse neighborhood now integrate its schools? In Mount Airy, it's happening.

Huntly Collins

December 06, 2019 |

The Notebook |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A diverse neighborhood in Philadelphia is working to make its local public schools reflect the same diversity. By working with community partners and ensuring black and white parent voices both help shape the school, the community is trying to find a balance between improving the local resource and preventing any displacement of the longstanding school population. The model is showing early promise.

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Tunisia launches a state-sponsored sex-education program, a rarity in the Arab world

Lateshia Beachum

December 05, 2019 |

The Washington Post |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Tunisia

Tunisia is rolling out a biological and religious-based sex education program in elementary and middle schools. It is the first state-sponsored curriculum of its kind in an Arab nation.

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What happened when schools used science to revamp how reading is taught

Katherine Long

December 01, 2019 |

The Seattle Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Danville, Pennsylvania

School districts in Pennsylvania are overhauling traditional reading curricula in favor of new neuroscience research that shows how the human brain processes sounds and symbols. The program is time-intensive, requiring teachers to learn a new way of teaching literacy, but has shown early promising results.

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Free tuition, $1,000 monthly stipend turn Tucson residents to teaching

Deagan Urbatsch

November 29, 2019 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

Multi-Media |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

To help retain elementary school teachers, an Arizona school district teamed up with the University of Arizona. The program covers the cost of tuition for a student's teaching degree and pays students a monthly stipend.

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