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  • Where Private School Is Not a Privilege

    May 08, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

    Bangladesh schools had very low attendance because children were kept home to work and conditions were unsafe for girls, ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities. BRAC, one of the world's largest and most comprehensive NGOs, has built new schools addressing all the reasons, at home and school, that were preventing children from attending.

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  • A Simple Way to Send Poor Kids to Top Colleges

    March 29, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Many poor students do not attend selective colleges not because they don't want to, but because they did not understand that they could. Basic information can substantially increase the number of low-income students who apply to, attend and graduate from top colleges.

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  • The Complicated World of Higher Education for Troops and Veterans

    February 01, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Afghanistan, Kandahar, Kandahar Province

    More than one million service members, veterans and their families take college courses financed with federal tax dollars. Their experiences are more complicated than those of their fresh-faced civilian peers, leading entities to explore the most effective ways to ensure they graduate.

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  • A Digital Tool to Unlock Learning

    September 19, 2012 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    PowerMyLearning, a program that any student, parent, or teacher can use for free, helps students take ownership of their own learning. When most attention is being placed on teacher effectiveness, this program redirects those efforts toward students.

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  • Open Education for a Global Economy

    July 11, 2012 |

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    Response Location: United States

    An Irish-based company, ALISON, provides free, high-quality e-courses to people around the globe in order to help close the gap between education and workplace skills. Particularly focused on providing access to areas where more traditional forms of education and job training are difficult to get, this approach is helping to change lives and the economy for the better.

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  • Making Schools Work

    May 19, 2012 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Despite the latest anniversary and celebration of Brown v. Board of Education, desegregation is effectively dead. Using magnet schools and other programs to integrate geographic regions may be the right next move.

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  • Africa's Girl Power

    March 07, 2012 |

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    Response Location: Zimbabwe

    Education is far from a given for poor, rural Africans. But a group called Camfed is bringing lasting social change to African countries by educating hundreds of thousands of girls.

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  • A Boost for the World's Poorest Schools

    January 19, 2012 |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kailalia District

    How can rural African children learn to read when there are no books in their languages? Save the Children helps kids to create their own books, creating a homemade library for their village.

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  • Reframing the debate over charter schools

    January 05, 2012 |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    Only 19 percent of Latino youth have completed an associate’s degree or higher, with 29 percent of African-American young people having done the same. The Making Waves Academy provides children of minority groups with specific counseling for personal problems as well as improved education to help them have a higher college graduation rate.

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  • Beyond Baby Mozart, Students Who Rock

    September 08, 2011 |

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    Response Location: United States, Tampa, Florida

    Why do schools teach music in a way that turns off so many young people rather than igniting their imagination? A program that taps into students’ passion for pop and rock is revitalizing music education in many schools.

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