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Zoom Funerals, Outdoor Classes: Jails and Prisons Evolve Amid the Pandemic

Keri Blakinger

January 19, 2021 |

The Marshall Project |

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Response Location: United States

When the pandemic forced jails and prisons to ban educational classes and cut off visits between outsiders and their loved ones behind bars, some jailers opened their facilities to remote-learning and -visiting tools. The result is a boom in the use of video conferencing for literacy classes, vocational training, family visits, and even to enable incarcerated people to attend family funerals. Some advocates for the incarcerated worry that in-person interactions could permanently be replaced by video, even after the risk of viral infection has eased.

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How one California preschool program is helping youngest learners with math

Sydney Johnson

January 19, 2021 |

EdSource |

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Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

Educators at the Lighthouse for Children Child Development Center piloted a 45-minute, weekly, math zoom session for toddlers. Parents attend the zoom lesson, and they are taught by educators. The program can offer some lessons in how to teach toddlers math virtually.

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How a diverse school district is using a strategy usually reserved for ‘gifted' students to boost everyone

Joy Resmovits

January 18, 2021 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

In order to mitigate the “pandemic slide,” a term that describes the educational loss that happened during the pandemic, Highline Public Schools implemented a strategy known as “acceleration.” The strategy is often reserved for gifted students and involves moving students along to more advanced lessons. “The strategies that we often reserved for ‘gifted and talented kids’ are great strategies that work for every student.” Data shows the strategy worked.

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Need a place for school age students to learn online in Detroit? A new child care scholarship offers a quick solution.

Koby Levin

January 15, 2021 |

Chalkbeat Detroit |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

In Michigan, state officials started offering child care subsidies to online learners ages 5-12, nearly 20,000 children enrolled. The aid is helping parents, guardians, and caretakers of school-age children continue to work while their children receive guided instruction. Local organizations and non-profits are offering scholarships to help parents pay for childcare since it takes close to a month for them to receive subsidy funds.

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'The largest classroom in Africa': How text messages mean millions of children can stay connected to education during Covid-19 school closures

Laura Joffre

January 04, 2021 |

Pioneers Post |

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Response Location: Kenya

In Sub-Saharan Africa, “almost half of schoolchildren, or a total of 121 million pupils, are unable to access remote learning,” according to a 2020 UNICEF report, an even bigger problem during a pandemic when students can’t access virtual classes. Eneza Education is using texts messages to deliver classes. Their bite-size lessons delivered via text and “Ask a Teacher” feature are providing education to millions of subscribers.

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

Kelly Burch

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

Sarah Matusek

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

Mariana Dale

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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This App Pays Young People Without Housing to Build Life Skills

Emily Nonko

November 24, 2020 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

Youth experiencing unstable housing in New Haven, Connecticut can build life skills in exchange for gift cards through an app built by a nonprofit. DreamKit incentivizes positive change for disadvantaged young people who have competing priorities. The nonprofit is building a pipeline which will allow them to gauge which skills employers are looking for, provide those skills through the app, and then present a list of trained youth to employers.

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From individual sessions to taking a real-world approach, here's how teachers are adapting to the pandemic

Naomi Martin

November 15, 2020 |

The Boston Globe |

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Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Teachers are having to restructure the way they teach due to the pandemic imposed challenges of virtual classes. This story chronicles how three different teachers adjusted their instruction. From having students break out into chat rooms, to changing the material they teach, these teachers are adjusting as they go along to accommodate learning.

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