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  • This California high school includes sustainability and green jobs in its curriculum

    September 07, 2023 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Porterville, California

    Students in Porterville’s Climate Action Pathways for Schools program participate in paid internships that teach them how to lower their community’s carbon footprint and help prepare them for careers in the green jobs industry. Through student-led energy audits and schoolwide efficiency competitions, the program has helped the district save roughly $850,000 in energy costs over the past several years.

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  • A surprising remedy for teens in mental health crises

    March 03, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Ramsey, New Jersey

    The Teen Mental Health First Aid training program gives students the necessary tools to identify warning signs and help their peers when experiencing a mental health crisis. Training students on how to act as first responders through this program has shown to increase mental health literacy and reduce reports of psychological distress among teens. Due to its results, Mental Health First Aid training is now required for all students and staff throughout the school district.

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  • Communities Are Trying To Help Working Parents Who Face A Child Care Gap

    August 31, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States

    School districts and cities are creating learning hubs, or learning centers, to provide students with remote learning and access to Wi-Fi. The hubs are free, low-cost, or subsided. The hubs are a necessary alternative for working parents who don’t have access to childcare or the internet at home.

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  • What Parents Can Learn From Child Care Centers That Stayed Open During Lockdowns

    June 24, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    When schools and daycares closed at the onset of the pandemic, YMCA centers around the country remained open to provide care for the children of essential workers. In Phoenix, YMCA staff worked to screen children for symptoms, and made social distancing fun by having them use 'airplane arms,' as well as implementing activities that made handwashing fun. Experts say "these experiences illustrate that it's possible to bring kids together without a guarantee of an outbreak or a serious situation developing," but the risk remains.

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  • How Cellphones Can Keep People Learning Around The World

    April 22, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    A platform that allows students to receive lessons via text message is being used to complement education efforts in Uganda. In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, one such texting platform has partnered with nonprofits to offer a free WhatsApp course "that covers coronavirus facts and health information."

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  • Schools Race To Feed Students Amid Coronavirus Closures

    March 20, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States

    In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, school districts are trying a number of approaches to ensure students still have access to free breakfasts and lunches even though they are not coming to school. In some cities, bus drivers are bringing meals to different neighborhoods. The federal government is also working to transfer what would be spent on school lunches to families in the form of food stamps.

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  • In Alaska's Wilderness, A New Vision Of Higher Learning

    December 08, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    The Arete Project in Alaska brings together a diverse group of students to earn college credit while completing classroom-based and outdoor learning assignments. In seminars and experiential courses, students learn from each other and their unique setting.

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  • To Prevent School Shootings, Districts Are Surveilling Students' Online Lives

    September 12, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States

    One way schools are trying to promote safety is by closely surveilling students' online behavior. While advocates say this is stopping violent incidents in their tracks, critics believe these methods cross a line and are an invasion of privacy.

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  • How Schools Can Reduce Sexual Violence

    November 13, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Providence, Rhode Island

    Researchers are using an approach that has reduced unsafe drinking on college campuses and applying it to preventing sexual assault and harassment by giving students actual facts about what their peers are doing and thinking. In this positive social norms approach, organizers use surveys of attitudes to correct misperceptions that teens peers don’t care about harassment or assault. Anecdotally it seems to be making a difference in behavior, although a full analysis is still in process.

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  • This College For Adult Learners Is A Refuge, Not Just A Career Boost

    July 04, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Tacoma, Washington

    At Evergeen State College's Tacoma undergraduate program, most students are women and people of color, the average age is 38, and 10 to 20 percent of attendees have been incarcerated. Compared to other schools, where one in three returning students complete a degree within several years, two out of three Tacoma students finish within the first two years. Tacoma encourages students to create their own courses to study and address the societal inequalities many have experienced in their own lives.

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