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  • High School in Southern Georgia: What ‘Career Technical' Education Looks Like

    March 27, 2014 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Marys, Georgia

    A high school in Southern Georgia addresses their dismal graduation rates by adopting a "career technical" approach to teaching that offers students a choice of five career path "academies." Once a student is enrolled in their academy, they learn practical skills required of that career path - along with typical high school requirements. Since implementation of this teaching style, the graduation rate has increased by nearly 35%.

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  • For Striving Students, a Connection to Money

    March 26, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Government benefits to aid the poor are frequently left unclaimed, leaving children hungry, young people unable to finish school, and opportunities for stable housing and preventative health care unused. New York City-based program Single Stop connects people to benefits for which they may be eligible. Importantly, Single Stop has served community colleges where disadvantaged students can use the assistance to help get through school.

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  • Teaching Children to Calm Themselves

    March 19, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas

    Children who experience neglect, severe stress or sudden separation at a young age can be traumatized - without appropriate adult support, trauma can interfere with healthy brain development, inhibiting children’s ability to make good decisions, use memory or use sequential thought processes to work through problems. Head Start Trauma Smart helps support traumatized and neglected children from acting out.

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  • How One Teacher Achieved Insane Reading Growth Last Year

    March 18, 2014 |

    EdSurge News |

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    Response Location: United States, Navarre, Florida

    Tracy Fischetti's high school students improved their reading level scores about three times as much as expected last year, thanks to her innovative approach of heavy content integration into collective class activities, plus an emphasis on students tracking their own Lexile level reading growth.

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  • Less lecturing, more doing: New approach for A.P. classes

    March 01, 2014 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Several dozen schools across the country are participating in an experiment to determine whether project-based learning in lieu of lecture-only instruction can improve student outcomes on Advanced Placement tests. Many of the initial changes are promising - 88 percent of students in two of the low-income schools participating passed the U.S. government test in the spring compared to 24 percent nationally for similar schools. However, the switch has been time-consuming for teachers and students and some are concerned the new approach doesn't prepare students for college style learning.

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  • Crime and blight still remain

    February 22, 2014 |

    Fayetteville Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Civic leaders in the U.S. struggle to effectively help their distressed neighborhoods. East Lake, Atlanta, created a replicable model that mixes residents of differing socio-economic status, and focuses on education and health in the area.

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  • Mentors have message for kids: Go to college

    February 08, 2014 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Bellingham, Washington

    Fewer than one in four high-school graduates in the Sedro-Woolley and Meridian school districts, for example, go to four-year colleges. Just a little over half of all graduates in surrounding districts go to college at all. Now, the schools have begun to send college students into middle schools and high schools to mentor them and excite them to go to college.

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  • Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline

    February 05, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    As creativity has increasingly become a marketable skill (in 2011 and 2012 "creative" was the most common word found on LinkedIn profiles), colleges are starting to formally build it into the curriculum with undergraduate majors and courses such as "Introduction to Creativity Studies." Long thought of as "the product of genius or divine intervention," these courses reframe creativity as a skill that can be taught to those students willing to learn.

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  • Improving Economic Diversity at the Better Colleges

    February 05, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

    Students with low-income that attend public schools can find themselves locked in a system that prevents them from getting into the best colleges, from being unable to afford tuition, to not having the ambition, to not knowing a school that would welcome them. Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA targets high-performing low-income students. The college provides outreach to high school students in poor communities, financial aid to low-income families, summer workshops, and on-site advising and academic support.

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  • School ditches rules and loses bullies

    January 26, 2014 |

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    Response Location: New Zealand, Auckland, Auckland

    A school in New Zealand took the rules out of recess. They found that when the kids were mentally engaged during play time activities they were less likely to have problems, such as bullying within the classroom.

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