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  • America's Great Working-Class Colleges

    January 18, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    CUNY has launched 6x as many students into the middle class as all the Ivy League schools combined. Dozens of colleges are vaulting thousands of low-income students into the middle class and beyond, allowing children from poorer families to enjoy brighter futures. But cuts to public funding for education may stand in their way.

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  • As Its Neediest Schools Struggle, What Can PA Learn From Ontario's Success?

    December 30, 2016 |

    Keystone Crossroads |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    Part 5 of the "Equity or Bust: Are Ontario's Public Schools a Model for Pennsylvania" Series: Ontario is widely lauded for its education system, thanks to more rigorous teacher preparation, universal pre-K, and a deeply rooted commitment to prioritizing the neediest students. Meanwhile, districts like that of Kenderton, Pennsylvania are floundering in a broken system that leaves many kids - especially minorities - behind. What can they learn from Ontario's model?

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  • Free community college finds bipartisan support

    December 23, 2016 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Despite a few remaining flaws to overcome, models for free community college in Chicago and Tennessee are serving as beacons for the rest of the nation in a time when many are calling for higher education to be more accessible to better bolster the American workforce. What can Pennsylvania draw from their successes?

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  • Teaching parents how to teach their toddlers: Seattle-area program yields lasting benefits

    December 21, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The Parent-Child Home Program in the Seattle area is helping close the achievement gap in poor and at-risk families by giving 2 and 3 year-olds a jump start in early education. By pairing parents with a trained educator, the program is helping children in low-income and immigrant families perform on par with their white and wealthier peers years later, improving graduation rates and potentially even salary and healthy lifestyles in the long term.

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  • What Keeps Women Out of Career Programs — and What Will Make Them Stay

    December 16, 2016 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Newport, Kentucky

    Research is recognizing that to help women graduate from career programs additional supports and services are needed such as child care, domestic violence aid and emergency cash assistance. Programs, such as The Brighton Center, provide systems of support where students can list additional supports they need and receive the help they need to graduate.

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  • How Ontario's vision of equity for schools contrasts starkly with Pennsylvania's

    December 13, 2016 |

    Keystone Crossroads |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    Part 1 of the "Equity or Bust: Are Ontario's Public Schools a Model for Pennsylvania" Series: Ontario has become widely lauded for its education system, celebrated for both high performance and relatively smaller achievement gaps between wealthy and poor students, thanks to the concept of "equity." This manifests, in essence, as more funding per-pupil to the school boards that serve students who face the greatest obstacles. The model contrasts starkly to the school system in Pennsylvania, regarded as "the most inequitable in the nation.”

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  • As Other Districts Grapple With Segregation, This One Makes Integration Work

    December 12, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Morristown, New Jersey

    The Morris district in Northern New Jersey has long championed diversity, even as its student body has changed and nearby schools remain deeply segregated. Each elementary school in the district draws from multiple neighborhoods, with a constant open zone at the center (where the poorest families live) where students are assigned to schools in order to maintain racial and economic diversity.

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  • Dominicans' hostel supports college students in Vietnam

    December 12, 2016 |

    Global Sisters Report |

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    Response Location: Vietnam, Da lat, Lam Dong

    It is rare for ethnic minority women from rural villages in Vietnam to pursue education. At the Dominican Sisters' Huong Duong Dormitory they are providing women with accommodations, scholarships, and support systems to aid their pursuit of higher education.

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  • First-in-the nation school program turns boys into strong black men

    November 27, 2016 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    In schools, young black males are considered the group in most need, but often they receive pity instead of empowerment. Through character education, academic mentoring, motivating psychology and afro-centric curriculum, the Manhood Development Project in Oakland is increasing graduation rates and lowering the number of run-ins with the law.

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  • Canada's Successful Drive to Educate Its Indigenous Students

    November 23, 2016 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: Canada

    In Canada, just under ten percent of indigenous adults hold university degrees. Canadian universities are working to make college campuses more welcoming to indigenous communities that have historically been subject to forced and often abusive assimilation in the name of "education." Administrators are incorporating indigenous-focused courses into the curriculum, adding an admissions counselor for indigenous applicants, and creating cultural centers for indigenous students. While many barriers remain, one university has seen a 40% increase in indigenous enrollment since implementing changes in 2011.

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