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  • How L.A. Gets Kids to Show Up at School

    September 27, 2015 |

    The Buffalo News |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Schools in Los Angeles have strict consequences for truancy and tardiness but offer rewards and recognition for good attendance. Administrators use iPhones to record the ID numbers of tardy students, tracking them in order to engage the appropriate intervention.

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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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  • Who Is Revolutionizing School Lunch?

    September 24, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The United States has rising childhood obesity and schools deal with kids who are picky. Through innovative school gardens and kid taste testing food, entrepreneurs across the nation are getting children to eat vegetables at school and love it.

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  • A new kind of development professional: The development engineer

    September 23, 2015 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: United States, Berkeley, California

    At UC Berkeley, the Blum Center for Developing Economies and the Center for Effective Global Action are working together to formalize development engineering as a field of research - a new generation of engineers committed to making a social impact.

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  • We Know One Way To Stop Sexual Assault, But Students Aren't Doing It

    September 23, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    A national survey showed that few college students intervene when witnessing a sexual assault. The school with the highest rate of student intervention was Dartmouth College, where students receive bystander prevention training.

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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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  • Catholic Schools In D.C. Adapt To Lower Budgets, Changing Requirements

    September 21, 2015 |

    American University Radio (WAMU) |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Across the globe, there are nearly 60 million students studying in Catholic institutions. In the United States, however, those numbers have been falling in recent years, forcing schools to come up with new ways to collaborate.

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  • A Haircut with a Side of Harry Potter: How can we get more boys to read for fun? For one New York-based organization, the answer begins in the barbershop.

    September 17, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Low graduation and literacy rates persist among Black males in New York City. Barbershop Books - a charity that distributes books to Black-owned barbershops - leverages the power of subliminal association: by bringing literature to predominantly Black male spaces, Black masculinity becomes literature friendly.

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  • Lessons from under the coconut tree

    September 12, 2015 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: Haiti, Nippes

    Boston professors visit countries and homes of foreign students to better understand their culture and gain insights about how to better teach them. The goal is to reach across cultural divides to help a big part of the student population — emigres from faraway lands — that is plagued with low standardized test scores and high dropout rates. Accompanying photojournalism: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2015/09/12/seeking-cultural-connections/L3mIQAQM3v9YT9A2K4JliL/story.html

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  • The “gifted” system in US schools is broken, racist, and completely fixable

    September 11, 2015 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: United States

    "Gifted" programs in the United States are often not representative of school populations, with a disproportionate number of spots going to white and well off students. The National Bureau of Economic Research found that when one district implemented universal screening programs in lieu of teacher referrals to identify gifted students, there was a 180% increase in disadvantaged students qualifying for the program.

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