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  • Faculty of color underrepresented at CSULB

    December 09, 2020 |

    Daily Forty-Niner |

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    Response Location: United States, Long Beach, California

    Nationally and historically, faculty of color have been underrepresented at most universities. At California State University Long Beach, the president proposed the “diversity training initiative,” in order to hire more faculty of color. The initiative requires “equity advocates” to be placed at each college, who “assess job descriptions and work with search committees to make sure the hiring process is done from an “equity-minded foundation.” The biggest jump amongst faculty of color happened in the College of Liberal Arts. Similar efforts are being undertaken by colleges around the country.

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  • Remote Learning Progress Report: Special needs students, parents struggled in spring

    December 08, 2020 |

    Concord Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Across the state of New Hampshire, school districts found themselves adjusting to the meet the particular needs of special needs students. Outside tents, remote games, and equipping paraprofessionals with Chromebooks, where just some of the things different school districts implemented.

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  • This teen tutor turns computer science into kids' stuff

    December 02, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    CS Remastered is a nonprofit that provides free individualized coding classes to students. The kind of one-on-one tutoring they might not get at school. The nonprofit was started by 17-year-old, Samvit Agarwal, who got the idea after he started tutoring kids from his neighborhood. “The entire idea is to make it as flexible or as adaptable to each student as possible,” Samvit says. Since its launch, the nonprofit has expanded to include 250 volunteers who service 300 students. “CS Remastered has opened four chapters in the U.S., one in India, and one in China.”

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  • How Snail Mail Connected This San Gabriel Valley School District To Its Youngest Students  Audio icon

    November 30, 2020 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Rowland Heights, California

    One school district is taking a creative approach to increase student attendance during the pandemic— care packages. In Rowland Unified School District, kindergarten teachers came up with the idea of sending care packages via the postal services to students twice a month. They hope that by doing so it will increase attendance among kindergarten students, a grade that has nationally seen plummeting enrollment. The packages include paper, pens, and books. “"It's really an opportunity for us as kindergarten teachers to help kids feel seen, and from the start, tell kids that they belong in school."

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  • Rewriting Black And Brown History, With A Little Help From Augmented Reality

    November 28, 2020 |

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    Glenn Cantave is bridging two worlds- AR technology and school curriculum, in order to educate students about Black and Brown people's history. With a team of coders he created an app called “Movers and Shakers.” The app has a catalog of “heroes you never learn about in school.” Student users navigate the app to learn about the heroes; women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ community. The app is being tested in one school district. “This sounds horrible, but we need to see what white people actually did to Black people because textbooks only tell you this much — and it’s not enough."

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  • Seattle's tuition-free community college program comes to the rescue during the pandemic

    November 22, 2020 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In Seattle, voters approved to fund a program that gives public high-school graduates two years of free community college. Then, the pandemic hit the year it was supposed to begin. Educators and school officials quickly pivoted to accommodate students. Flexibility, student surveys, and tech-upgrades, are some of the things they did, and it worked. The program surpassed its enrollment projections, with 846 enrolled students. “That represents about one-third of Seattle Public Schools’ class of 2020. And 62% are students of color.”

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  • Life on the farm: How one Washington school district is restoring in-person learning

    November 14, 2020 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Langley, Washington

    Students in South Whidbey Island, off the west coast of Washington State, are getting to know first-hand the process of farm to table meals. During "farm school" kids get a break from e-learning and help tend to the local community garden, where they also get their meals from.

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  • ‘Anti-racist coalition:' the movement to integrate public schools across the country

    November 09, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    Despite segregation being deemed unconstitutional, nationally, many schools remain segregated along racial and class lines. Integrate Schools, a national grassroots movement, is focused on integrating schools.

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  • Tracking incomplete grades moves students forward – with extra focus from educators

    November 09, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Norfolk, Virginia

    Norfolk Public Schools had a unique approach to addressing student performance post-pandemic—giving students an incomplete instead of failing them. The move revealed racial disparities that allowed the district to respond. “Of the 12,455 incomplete grades submitted, 71% went to Black students.” The district acted on that information and gave devices to students, limited instruction to four times a week to prevent teacher burnout, and placed a bus driver at every school to send staff to communities.

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  • Nashville creates help centers to get struggling English Learners online for school

    November 09, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    In Nashville, school officials quickly found out that English Learner families were technologically falling behind and not logging into class. The school district decided to help families by creating 10 in-person tech hubs, where students could get more specilialized help. “By October, the hubs had seen more than 5,000 families.”

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