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  • Utiliser le numérique pour faciliter l'accès à l'éducation: le modèle d'ecole au Sénégal

    December 14, 2021 |

    StopBlabla |

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    Response Location: Senegal

    Utiliser le numérique pour réduire les inégalités d’accès à une éducation de qualité. Telle est l’ambition de l’Ecole au Sénégal, School in Senegal (EAS), une plateforme de cours disponible en ligne gratuitement visant à aider élèves et enseignants. Aujourd'hui, elle compte 103 000 anciens élèves, 54 professeurs et plus de 3 000 cours en ligne.

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  • Nashville crea centros bilingües para estudiantes aprendiendo inglés

    December 14, 2021 |

    KXAN-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    La ciudad de Nashville creó centros tecnológicos para estudiantes que están aprendiendo inglés y sus familias durante la pandemia. En estos espacios no sólo tenían el servicio de un intérprete, sino que se convierte en un espacio para enseñarles a usar la tecnología, esencial para que los estudiantes pudieran atender clases virtuales.

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  • Room for everyone: Tribal college expands its reach

    December 13, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation, United States, Arizona

    Tohono O’odham Community College in Arizona shifted its courses online during the pandemic and offered them for free to any Native student, expanding the tribal college's reach beyond the Tohono O’odham Nation for the first time. The college saw its enrollment jump by 96 percent — the largest increase of any tribal college in 2020 — and now serves students representing 55 tribal nations.

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  • 'A clear winner': How education in prison can help people after release

    December 13, 2021 |

    Granite State News Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Correctional education opportunities provide a number of benefits: Skills, self-esteem, job opportunities, and lower chances of going back to prison. Educational opportunities for people serving prison time decrease the possibility of recidivism by 30 percent.

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  • La Salle San Luis: un espacio para las altas capacidades

    December 12, 2021 |

    Noticias De Gipuzkoa |

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    Response Location: Spain

    Como respuesta a la atención especializada que puden necesitar estudiantes con altas capacidades, un colegio crea un programa que les permite profundizar en las materias que llevan día a día en las clases con los demás estudiantes, de manera que fomentan sus capacidades y evitan la distracción, el aburrimiento y problemas de salud mental.

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  • Finnish teacher who secretly taught IS children in Syrian camps by text

    December 11, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Syria, Al-Hol Camp

    Children living in dire conditions in a Syrian camp were taught by a teacher all the way in Finland. Without stable internet or computers, the children learned via WhatsApp - using voice notes, messages, and emojis. The students were able to grasp the Finnish language, showing the efficacy of the remote learning experiment.

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  • Co-ops Stepping In to Solve Rural Internet Inequity in Noxubee County

    December 10, 2021 |

    Mississippi Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Noxubee County, Mississippi

    A cooperative solution to provide broadband services to rural towns in the Golden Triangle of Mississippi is being funded by a federal program. The pandemic exacerbated the digital divide felt disproportionately by Black families struggling to access school, health, and remote work opportunities. Co-ops are member-owned, not-for-profit, electric companies that provide consistent broadband service to rural areas where big companies don’t operate due to a lack of profit.

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  • How can schools detect potentially violent students? Researchers have an answer.

    December 09, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Using tactics developed by the U.S. Secret Service to protect the life of the president, Virginia pioneered an approach to assessing threats of possible mass shootings in schools that has been adopted by an estimated half of all secondary schools in the U.S., and mandated by 11 states. Studies have shown its effectiveness, though it's difficult to know when something didn't occur because of a particular intervention. Multidisciplinary teams of school administrators, police, and mental health professionals follow a protocol for determining which troubling signs are evidence of a real threat.

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  • Community Based organization enhancing ICT literacy in Siaya

    December 03, 2021 |

    Ratego Radio |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Siaya County

    A computer literacy training program has trained over 50 individuals, both young people and adults, in information communication technology from rural Siaya County in Kenya. The program is free and is open to anyone fifteen years old and above. It is crowd funded by a network of donors and graduates have access to more professional and personal growth opportunities.

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  • After Michigan Killings, Students Praised Shooter Drills. But Do They Really Work?

    December 02, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Oxford, Michigan

    Students at Oxford High School in Michigan, the scene of a mass shooting on Nov. 30, credit their active-shooter training with saving lives. But experts on school safety say some of the lessons taught in the training given to the OHS students, from a program called ALICE (alert, lockdown, inform, counter, evacuate), could endanger more people than they protect. The evidence that this and similar training is effective is quite thin, and critics fear it detracts from higher priorities: preventing, not just surviving, such shootings, and focusing on much more common forms of gun violence.

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