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  • For India's Blind Women, A School with a Vision

    June 15, 2016 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: India, Surendranagar, Gujarat

    Since 1995, Pragnachaksu has paved a path to empowerment for blind women in India, offering academic and vocational classes in addition to braille instruction. The school provides free housing and tuition for girls looking for primary and secondary education, a service that is usually unavailable to the country's eight million blind citizens, and to visually impaired women in particular.

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  • Volunteers of America offers youth offenders second chances and more: Pathways to Peace

    June 09, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    The Volunteers of America's Face Forward 2 program offers a second chance to youth offenders by focusing on education and employment. Destyni Iverson believes the program potentially changed the trajectory of life. She said she felt hopeless when she enrolled, and was on the verge of becoming a high school dropout. Now she is enrolled as a nursing student at Cuyahoga Community College and believes she has a bright future.

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  • More jobs, less youth violence, data and experts say: Pathways to Peace

    June 09, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Programs run by the Volunteers of America and Ohio Means Jobs|Cleveland-Cuyahoga County focus on employment, not only as a workforce issue, but also as a way to keep young people out of trouble and lower youth violence. Such programs have the research to back them up. An analysis done for The Plain Dealer by Case Western Reserve University shows a correlation between the youth idle rate, based on teens who are neither in school nor working, and youth violence.

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  • YouthBuild Philly Offers Local Dropouts a Second Chance

    May 11, 2016 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    YouthBuild focuses on a tough demographic: 18- to 21-year-old drop-outs who are eligible for neither regular high school nor adult education. The program mixes classroom learning and vocational education, qualifying them for entry-level jobs or college.

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  • Selling entrepreneurship to a million students

    April 11, 2016 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Educate!, a social enterprise started in Uganda, helps students start businesses while they are still in school - students are "creating jobs instead of looking for them." The organization trains teachers and youth mentors, who then work with the students in their schools to get businesses off the ground. A randomized trial conducted in 2014 found that graduates of the program earned double the income of their peers.

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  • A Bold Shift to Make Public Schools Serve Poor Students

    January 25, 2016 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Last year, New York City began turning schools in poor neighborhoods into community schools—combining rigorous instruction and extracurricular enrichment with a broad social support system.

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  • The American Dream Isn't Dead. This Is How Immigrant Families Are Achieving It

    November 09, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Instituto del Progreso Latino, a vocational school in Chicago, is comprehensively helping Latino immigrants living in the U.S. educate themselves, find professional work, and rise above poverty.

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  • Cristo Rey high schools breed academic maturity by sending students into the workforce

    September 24, 2015 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Kids from low income families miss out on college prep conversations at home. A high school work study program in Chicago is helping these students succeed in college by connecting them with white collar professional mentors and experiences.

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  • How Detroit anchor institutions are developing local talent

    September 22, 2015 |

    Model D |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    With the help of a grant, a high school in Detroit is making "13th grade" desirable. Upon completion, graduates of the tuition-free 5-year "Early College" program are certified to work in a range of roles in the health care industry. The program is also helping to fill persistent gaps in the local employment pipeline.

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  • Forging and Welding an Education

    September 10, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    In Oakland, a non-profit created an industrial arts education school offering youth an alternative classroom for learning where failure is welcomed and everything is hands on, such as welding and forging. The non-profit, which is known as The Crucible, was founded in 1999, and serves more than 8,000 students per year, all managed by close to 100 faculty members.

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