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  • Preventing learning slides over summer vacation

    Books for Keeps hosts free book fairs to keep children and their families reading year-round. In 2022, the organization gave away more than 58,000 books, the most it has ever donated in a single year.

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  • Can Spanish and English speakers thrive in the same city?

    Emporia Spanish Speakers was founded to encourage English-speaking residents to interact with and welcome their Spanish-speaking neighbors by making an effort to learn the language. The initiative has since grown to offer instruction for elementary-aged children, as well as a program for business owners who want to better serve Spanish-speaking customers, and members of the local Latino community say the programs have helped create a more inclusive environment in Emporia.

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  • A plan tackling segregated middle schools in Brooklyn shows some patterns are hard to break

    After Brooklyn's District 15 replaced selective admissions with a lottery system, economic segregation in sixth grade decreased by 55 percent and racial segregation decreased by 38 percent compared with the previous year. Though challenges remain in creating truly inclusive school cultures, parents and educators say community attitudes are shifting around what makes for a "good" or desirable school.

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  • Organizing to Cancel Debt Fuels Systemic Change

    Occupy Wall Street ignited today's debt cancellation movement. Groups like the Debt Collective are winning victories, canceling predatory student debt and pushing systemic reforms like tuition-free college. Though incremental, these changes are rewriting policy and challenging racialized capitalism.

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  • How a young Nigerian is tackling learning problem among rural pupils with digital tools

    Teach For Nigeria works to eliminate educational inequity in Nigeria and recruits young graduates and education enthusiasts to teach in rural schools. With the help of the Aid for Rural Education Access Initiative, Teach for Nigeria recruits can bring innovative, digital tools — like talking, audio books — to help enhance learning in and out of the classroom.

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  • Unions offer graduate student workers a stronger platform to secure living wages and reasonable workloads

    Graduate student unions, like Oregon State University’s Coalition of Graduate Employees, use collective bargaining to allow student employees to successfully negotiate for fair wages, reasonable hours, and other terms of employment.

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  • Hope, healing, and the return of an annual camping trip for Brooklyn high-schoolers

    A public high school in Brooklyn, New York, hosts an annual camping trip for students to come out of their shells and get to know their peers and teachers over the course of several days of outdoor activities.

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  • Helping More HS Students ‘Cross the Finish Line' & Earn College Credit

    Indiana's Crossing the Finish Line program leverages COVID-19 relief funding to cover the cost of college-level credit for high school students. The program targets students who are only a few credits away from completing the state's College Core curriculum or receiving a technical credential.

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  • How a Foundation-driven Response Keeps Indigent Students in School

    Students who live in Afijio, with qualifying grades and involvement in the community, can apply for scholarships and aids like textbooks from the nonprofit Abel Ogundokun Odeleye Foundation. The foundation is working to ease the financial burden on students who may not be able to complete their education otherwise.

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  • Meet the people who help Spanish-speaking families decode life and learning in South County

    Within the Latino community, there are often miscommunications between schools and parents that have a big impact on students' education. To help build a bridge, some schools are hosting forums for Spanish-speaking families and including more inclusive language in messaging to allow parents to be more involved in their children’s education.

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