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  • The San Francisco Jail That Started a School

    March 10, 2016 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Five Keys Charter School, established in 2003, works in various California prisons to provide education and job training to inmates. Since its founding, Five Keys has awarded 684 high school diplomas to inmates in custody and 712 more to people who completed their coursework at a network of community sites scattered around San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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  • Denver's unified school enrollments may offer Boston a lesson

    January 25, 2016 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    The one-stop shopping for public, magnet, charter and innovations schools has proved popular in Coloroda but generated controversy in Massachusetts.

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  • A Bold Shift to Make Public Schools Serve Poor Students

    January 25, 2016 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Last year, New York City began turning schools in poor neighborhoods into community schools—combining rigorous instruction and extracurricular enrichment with a broad social support system.

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  • How to Teach Kids Empathy Through Dance

    January 22, 2016 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Dancing promotes strong social-emotional development. In areas of Los Angeles where arts education has disappeared due to cuts in school funding, a New York-based non-profit organization has stepped in to teach kids to dance. The program, launched in Los Angeles County, brings dance to socio-economically disadvantaged students, growing to include hundreds of middle school and high school students. Cognitive benefits for students go beyond improved respect, teamwork, and cooperative skills observed in the classroom; dancing provides a therapeutic outlet for children in difficult circumstances.

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  • Impressive New Scores for Newark Charters Raise an Awkward Question: Did City Pick the Wrong Strategy?

    January 12, 2016 |

    The 74 |

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    Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

    Impressive PARCC scores for Newark charters beg the question—did city choose wrong strategy? The charter schools were able to bring in students' parents and fill holes in students' knowledge by starting with the basics in math and reading.

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  • How an ambitious new program aims to fight poverty and help kids learn, one block at a time

    December 02, 2015 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Arvada, Colorado

    To mitigate the pernicious effects of poverty on student success, nonprofit 'Blocks of Hope' in Colorado aims to provide both educational and social services to students and their families, with the goal of leveling the playing field.

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  • How a diverse yet divided school blended ‘segregated' classes

    October 19, 2015 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In the U.S., the practice of tracked classes or special programs have exacerbated racial separation in schools. Leschi Elementary, in Seattle, made changes to their curriculum to draw white families to a traditionally black school.

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  • Write a House

    October 07, 2015 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    An organization in Detroit is piloting free housing for writers in exchange for staying in the city for three years and revitalizing the community. The program was started through a robust crowdfunding campaign and then later from foundation grants and more crowdfunding. It is transforming foreclosed homes in the NoHam neighborhood and offers community growth, through “neighborhoods and culture.”

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  • Catholic Schools In D.C. Adapt To Lower Budgets, Changing Requirements

    September 21, 2015 |

    American University Radio (WAMU) |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Across the globe, there are nearly 60 million students studying in Catholic institutions. In the United States, however, those numbers have been falling in recent years, forcing schools to come up with new ways to collaborate.

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  • The Classrooms Hidden in Mumbai's Seams

    July 28, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai, Maharashtra

    Educators are bringing the classroom to the thousands of Mumbai’s children out of school — in school buses, treehouses, and beyond—enabling them to receive a quality education despite their poverty.

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