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  • UW program helps disadvantaged students thrive in tough engineering college

    The University of Washington State Academic Red Shirt program provides enrolled students with an extra year of prerequisite instruction in an attempt to prepare them to pursue an engineering degree. Five years in, the model, which mirrors the academic "red shirt" concept, has shown promising results, enabling students from lower-performing high schools to catch up before formally embarking on the path to an engineering degree.

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  • Highland Students Find Guidance, Resilience In Chicano Studies

    In 2014, Tucson schools found that performance and graduation rates improved dramatically when students completed classes in Mexican-American studies - the achievement gap closed within a matter of a few years. Now, a teacher in New Mexico is trying to replicate Arizona's success with a Chicano Studies class that takes students' through history and the reality of racism in their own lives.

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  • How movie stars conquered the ‘gig economy'

    For contingent workers in what is often called the "gig economy," securing access to benefits, retirement, and other markers of job security can be a struggle. However, the success of the Screen Actors Guild and other labor unions for those in the entertainment industry in the 20th century might provide a useful framework for organizing for a 21st century labor market.

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  • Barcelona Finds a Way to Control Its Airbnb Market

    Swamped by short-term vacation rentals, Barcelona pushed Airbnb to share data with government officials and help ensure that only licensed properties are listed on the site. The agreement offers a model for how other cities can respond to the same problem.

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  • San Francisco's new bot will downgrade marijuana crimes

    Writing laws to be machine-readable could have huge payoffs. San Francisco is designing a computer program to read through the city’s prosecution records and automatically downgrade applicable marijuana possession convictions from felonies to misdemeanors. Such a change became possible in 2014, but the downgrading process proved too expensive and complicated for most individuals to take on themselves. Software developers face hurdles that include needing to teach computers to read inconsistent language and paperwork formats.

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  • Can ‘Tennessee Promise' of free tuition offer lessons for Seattle and Washington?

    Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan looks to Tennessee's initiative that offers free community college education for every high-school graduate in the state. Only one year after Tennessee became the first state to offer such assistance, the college enrollment rate by five percent.

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  • Colleges Are No Match for American Poverty

    Journalist Marcella Bombardieri calls community college "one of America's largest and most important anti-poverty programs." The president of Amarillo College in Texas is testing just how far community colleges can go to fight systemic issues - day care, social workers, and emergency funds for students' daily expenses are part of his plan. Other administrators are looking on at the dramatic experiment with mixed views and takeaways.

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  • Thousands of refugees can't prove they have degrees — this scheme could help

    First piloted in 2017, the Qualifications Passport allows refugees to apply for a document certifying their education background earned in their home country. The Council of Europe is working to spread awareness of the document and encouraging universities to accept the passport not only as a social symbol but as a formal recognition capable of leveling the playing field for refugees in the job market.

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  • Can Portable Schools in India Keep Kids Off the Streets?

    A Mumbai school located in a remodeled shipping container meets kids on the street where they are at. Signal School results from a collaborative effort between the city and a non-profit, and focuses on bringing education to migrant children, so that they are less likely to be forced into child labor or street begging. Signal School does more than just teach, it also provides meals, works with families to change the cultural perspective that education is an amenity for the privileged, and helps migrant families find permanent housing.

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  • Nonprofits: Providing Education For People During And After Incarceration

    Nonprofits in the Philadelphia area work to bring education to offenders who are in corrections facilities, as well as those who are re-entering into the world. Research shows that, with access to classes, novels, and career resources, offenders are significantly less likely to be re-incarcerated than they are without these services.

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