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  • California campuses try to lower college costs with free transit

    January 06, 2023 |

    Boyle Heights Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Colleges in California are providing reduced or free public transit to full-time students in an effort to remove cost barriers for low-income students.

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  • The Black Graduation Gap

    December 31, 2022 |

    KOVR-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    In an attempt to close a gap in graduation rates for Black students, campuses in the California State University system, including San Diego State University and Sacramento State University, have shifted hiring practices to improve diversity among faculty and staff, opened resource centers, and implemented new career development programs for Black students. Between 2016 and 2022, Sacramento State's Black graduation rate improved from 21st out of 22 campuses in the system to ninth in the system, though Black students there still graduate at lower rates than average.

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  • At this Texas school, every student is a teen mother

    December 29, 2022 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United States, Brownsville, Texas

    Lincoln Park High School is one of the only schools in the U.S. that provides education and services exclusively for teenage mothers. The school has served teen mothers aged between 14 and 19 since 2005. There are currently about 70 students enrolled in the school but the number often fluctuates. Along with providing teen mothers with education and needed resources for their children, the school also helps to encourage the teens to go to college, something that often isn’t a reality for teen moms.

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  • WA schools want more students to be bilingual; is that goal possible?

    December 27, 2022 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, SeaTac, Washington

    Dual-language programs, which offer instruction in both English and a second language for subjects such as science, math, and social studies, improve English acquisition while allowing multilingual students to stay connected to their culture. In one Washington school district, most dual-language students outperformed non-dual-language students on state language arts exams.

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  • Deaf in Tech: How Data Lead Africa is actioning inclusiveness of PLWDs in the workplace

    December 22, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Data Lead Africa offers a training program specifically designed to help prepare Deaf people for careers in technology and data analysis. Students are provided laptops with assistive technology and sign language interpreters who facilitate the training.

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  • Women earn unique master's in ministry behind Tennessee prison bars

    December 21, 2022 |

    The Christian Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    Lipscomb University's LIFE Program provides educational opportunities to women incarcerated at the Debra Johnson Rehabilitation Center, including a master's degree in Christian ministry. The courses are also offered to non-incarcerated people who learn alongside their incarcerated peers, and 13 students graduated from the program in 2022.

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  • Wireless hot spots: A pandemic fix yielding lackluster results for rural students

    December 19, 2022 |

    Carlsbad Current-Argus |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Teresa, New Mexico

    When the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to shift to remote learning, districts issued wireless hot spots to students as a cost-effective solution to help those living in homes without internet access their school work. While hot spots helped a large number of students, a present digital divide — specifically in rural areas — has made connecting harder for others, but government funding is ramping up to expand broadband access.

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  • Credit Where Credit is Needed

    December 19, 2022 |

    Native Science Report |

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    Response Location: United States, South Dakota

    South Dakota State University's Expanding the Circle program provides online graduate courses and tuition support to help faculty at tribal colleges update their credentials in line with new accreditation requirements. Since the program was rolled out, the retention rate for online graduate coursework has risen by roughly 30 percent.

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  • The rate of out-school children in Nigeria is alarming, but one initiative is taking children off the streets in Gombe

    December 14, 2022 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Gombe

    The founder of the Uncle Muhsin Education Support Initiative uses his own resources to offer in-person and virtual classes for free to young Nigerians who are out of school. He also offers classes for children in school who do not understand all of their subjects.

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  • The City That Kicked Cops Out of Schools and Tried Restorative Practices Instead

    December 12, 2022 |

    In These Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Des Moines, Iowa

    Theodore Roosevelt Highschool in Des Moines, Iowa, transitioned from employing armed school resource officers to a restorative practices team to prevent and mediate violence with proactive support instead of immediate punishment.

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