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These Detroit Students Mix Day Jobs With School

Serena Maria Daniels

May 25, 2017 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

A national network of private Catholic high schools matches its low-income population with corporate sponsors in the community to help students get real-world work experience and firms diversity potential talent pools. Following a work-study model in which students' compensation goes towards the school's operating costs, students work a 9-5 job one day of the week. The Detroit chapter has a 100 percent college acceptance rate.

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Bringing the Dream of an Elite College to Rural Students

Anemona Hartocollis

May 21, 2017 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, North Carolina

Recent college graduates are working as full-time college counselors in low-income, rural communities across the country. The program, College Advising Corps, aims to provide students with ready access to information about deadlines, school options, and financial aid forms. In one North Caroline school equipped with a young advisor, the college enrollment rate has increased by 10 percent over the course of two years and is projected to continue to rise.

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Hartford, Conn., experiment shows challenges, rewards of diversity in schools

Liz Bowie

March 28, 2017 |

The Baltimore Sun |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Hartford, Connecticut

Starting in the late 80s, Hartford school officials implemented programs to reverse the de facto segregation present in the district. Chief among these programs was developing 42 magnet schools, many of which provided specialized education in topics popular with students and relevant to the workplace. Currently, around half of Hartford’s students attend integrated schools.

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Within integrated schools, de facto segregation persists

Erica Green

March 25, 2017 |

The Baltimore Sun |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Columbia, Maryland

Students in advanced classes in Howard County, Maryland schools are disproportionately white. Faculty and administration are working to identify, understand, and change the ways that implicit bias favors white students as early as elementary school. Other steps taken include the elimination of some prerequisites to advanced classes and a shift in mindset that students in advanced classes are trying to become college ready rather than already being college ready.

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Minneapolis North High School dramatically increased its graduation rate. How'd they do it?

Erin Hinrichs

March 17, 2017 |

MinnPost |

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Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

High school graduation rates, especially for Black and Hispanic students, are alarmingly low, which led North High School in Minneapolis to rebuild the school model and foster a dramatic increase in the number of students graduating. Through daily advisory periods with teachers, a community of peer support, close contact between teachers and parents, and outside guidance, the school has seen overwhelming improvement.

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This innovative program uses brain science to teach Chicago teens how to stop violence

Lauren Dockett

March 15, 2017 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Violence in Chicago's South Side reached a peak in 2016, with rates at the highest since the 1990s. Community leaders are trying to de-escalate street violence through CHILL, a new program that provides scientific explanations as a means to inform and prevent conflict between teens in the area.

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Girls Knit Their Way to a Math Career

Holly Korbey

March 08, 2017 |

Bright Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

A growing body of research suggests knitting and crocheting can be used to teach math. It could also be a way to bridge the gap between men and women in the STEM fields, and make the subject more approachable to young girls, who have higher levels of math anxiety. KnitLab project does that, and teaches middle school students, particularly girls, to knit and crochet in order to understand complicated math subjects. Already, more than 50 students have been taught.

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School for underprivileged girls teaches feminist principles in India

Kristi Eaton

February 16, 2017 |

NBC News |

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Response Location: India, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

In Lucknow, India, a unique school uses a curriculum grounded in feminist principles to instill confidence and a deep understanding of the country's patriarchal systems in girls from the surrounding impoverished neighborhoods.

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The Sea Creature That Saved a School (How Lobsters Are Keeping Students in School)

Tanya Paperny

December 11, 2016 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States, Deer Isle, Maine

Deer Isle, Maine, struggled to keep students in school; many students felt that a diploma was unnecessary, since they could drop out and join the lobster fishing industry. But the local high school found a creative solution to keep students engaged and ensure more opportunities in what can be a volatile industry. They redesigned courses to suit the interests of students, moving to project-based learning that explores traditional academic topics through fishing and marine themes, such as studying geometry through boat building. The approach has helped increase graduation rates by more than 30 percent.

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Teaching Teens Financial Literacy

Arielle Dreher

November 09, 2016 |

Jackson Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

Students at Provine High School will soon be able to open up accounts with Hope Credit Union, right in their own hallway. The partnership is helping students realize that having a relationship with a financial institution can create a more stable financial future, breaking the cycle of poverty.

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