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  • ‘Our goal is to empower students based on their talent – not the colour of their passports'

    November 30, 2020 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Student Circus is an online platform which is demystifying the job application process for international students in the United Kindgom. The website was started by two international students who were having a hard time job searching, mainly because many employers didn't list whether they sponsored job visas or not. The service is offered for free to students from select universities.

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  • Rewriting Black And Brown History, With A Little Help From Augmented Reality

    November 28, 2020 |

    OZY |

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    Response Location: United States

    Glenn Cantave is bridging two worlds- AR technology and school curriculum, in order to educate students about Black and Brown people's history. With a team of coders he created an app called “Movers and Shakers.” The app has a catalog of “heroes you never learn about in school.” Student users navigate the app to learn about the heroes; women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ community. The app is being tested in one school district. “This sounds horrible, but we need to see what white people actually did to Black people because textbooks only tell you this much — and it’s not enough."

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  • ‘Life-altering for everyone': Kindering bridges the virtual gap to help kids with special needs

    November 26, 2020 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    When the coronavirus pandemic caused businesses and organizations to stop in-person offerings, a non-profit in Washington that specializes in services for children with special needs quickly shifted operations to an online format. Although this new online business model isn't financially feasible in the longterm, it has helped bridge the gap in care for many families and "the data so far suggest that most children are doing just as well as with in-person services."

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  • This App Pays Young People Without Housing to Build Life Skills Audio icon

    November 24, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    Youth experiencing unstable housing in New Haven, Connecticut can build life skills in exchange for gift cards through an app built by a nonprofit. DreamKit incentivizes positive change for disadvantaged young people who have competing priorities. The nonprofit is building a pipeline which will allow them to gauge which skills employers are looking for, provide those skills through the app, and then present a list of trained youth to employers.

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  • Coronavirus means free school meals across the U.S. What if that stayed?

    November 24, 2020 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Yakima, Washington

    A no-cost meal program allows high-poverty schools to offer all enrolled students free lunch, which consequently addresses child nutrition problems and meal debt. The program, however, has pivoted and expanded during the coronavirus pandemic to ensure that schools can still act as a food distribution hub.

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  • How College Students Are Helping Each Other Survive

    November 23, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Students across the country are dealing with food and housing insecurity, and financial loss, conditions that have been exacerbated because since the pandemic. In response, students in some colleges and universities created mutual-aid networks, raising and distribution thousands of dollars to their peers. “Students continue to lead the fight to address their basic needs.”

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  • Two School Districts Had Different Mask Policies. Only One Had a Teacher on a Ventilator.

    November 23, 2020 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, Marietta, Georgia

    Two schools in two different cities in Georgia have provided a case study for the efficacy of wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In one case where masks were optional and only half of the school opted to wear one, the school was overcome by a coronavirus outbreak; while in the other city where masks were mandatory, the school saw significantly fewer cases of the disease.

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  • Seattle's tuition-free community college program comes to the rescue during the pandemic

    November 22, 2020 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In Seattle, voters approved to fund a program that gives public high-school graduates two years of free community college. Then, the pandemic hit the year it was supposed to begin. Educators and school officials quickly pivoted to accommodate students. Flexibility, student surveys, and tech-upgrades, are some of the things they did, and it worked. The program surpassed its enrollment projections, with 846 enrolled students. “That represents about one-third of Seattle Public Schools’ class of 2020. And 62% are students of color.”

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  • A Roubaix, une psychologue de rue pour récupérer les exclus de l'école

    November 20, 2020 |

    Médiacités |

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    Response Location: France, Roubaix

    Des ateliers contre le décrochage scolaire sont organisés par une psychologue de rue à Roubaix, une ville qui concentre un quart des exclusions définitives de son département. Une approche plébiscitée : en 2019, sur 103 collégiens exclus, seules deux familles avaient refusé ce dispositif.

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  • Know anyone applying to college during COVID-19? This program gets good results in Fresno

    November 17, 2020 |

    The Fresno Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    In the central San Joaquin Valley, guidance counselors are using CaliforniaColleges.edu to help oversee their students' college-application process. Within the program, the counselors are able to manage every step of each application, which helps them determine whether they need to make interventions. Twenty-five schools have implemented the system.

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