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  • In ‘Flipped' Classrooms, a Method for Mastery

    October 23, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Putnam, Connecticut

    Students have challenges retaining information, staying motivated, and keeping up with the pace of their classes. In a flipped mastery class, teachers make video lectures for students to watch at home, and at school students work on projects and problem solving activities related to the topics for the day. Instead of struggling alone, the flipped mastery class enables students to creatively work together and set individual goals.

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  • Improving School Lunch by Design

    October 16, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The San Francisco Unified School District is piloting a collaboration with the design firm IDEO to re-imagine the school food system and help combat childhood obesity by better designing the space and the experience of how children eat, as much as the type of food they consume.

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  • How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses

    October 15, 2013 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Matamoros, Tamaulipas

    Around the world, a new way of teaching and learning is gaining traction – and seeing results. Rooted in educational theory from the likes of Socrates, Piaget, and Montessori, this method is led by students’ curiosity and ability to learn and grow independently; essentially, the students control their own learning. Such methods make success more attainable in places like Matamoros, Mexico, who has seen exceptional improvement from students who experience learning this way.

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  • Turning Education Upside Down

    October 09, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    What is the best use of a teacher’s precious face-to-face classroom time? It’s working one-on-one with students, not lecturing. To free up more time for the important stuff, some teachers are now recording videos of their lectures for students to watch at home.

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  • Who Will Heal the Doctors?

    October 02, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Bureaucracy in the health care system causes burnout among doctors. A new medical course, the Healer's Art, is being offered across the nation, which helps doctors reconnect to the humanity of their work and maintain their commitment for it.

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  • Young Black and Latino Men Are, in Fact, Going to College

    September 30, 2013 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The high school graduation and college matriculation rates are especially low for minority students. But some use tactics, like staying busy with extracurriculars and relying on guidance support systems, to ensure that they will succeed.

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  • Medicine's Search for Meaning

    September 18, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Medicine is in crisis; doctors face early burnout. Medical education contributes: it creates doctors who don’t show emotion. But The Healer’s Art, a medical school course delivered in an unconventional manner, reminds doctors that they and their patients are above all, human.

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  • Why Prisoner Education Is Key to Reducing Crime

    September 09, 2013 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    Inmates who get correctional education are less likely to become repeat offenders, but education costs money. An organization is funding educational opportunities for prisoners in various cities in the U.S. to improve their reentry into society.

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  • Bringing Back the Night: A Fight Against Light Pollution

    August 19, 2013 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    More people are beginning to acknowledge the adverse effects of light pollution on wildlife and human health alike, as countries like France are enacting light ordinances to restrict the use of lights at night. Along with an added benefit of cutting carbon emissions, these ordinances require businesses to turn off lights at night after employees leave, and for billboards to cut light as well.

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  • Even Odds: A Place Apart

    August 18, 2013 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Young black males in Oakland are suspended more frequently and graduate high school at a much lower rate than their peers. A charter school specifically designed for African American boys focuses on providing them with role models to create a supportive environment, combat the effects of trauma, and push them to succeed.

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