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  • What One District's Data Mining Did For Chronic Absence

    Elissa Nadworny

    May 30, 2016 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Grand Rapids, Michigan

    Three years after Grand Rapids Public Schools (GRPS) began its efforts to improve attendance rates, almost 4,000 kids who were formerly chronically absent are no longer. Educators publicly shared attendance data with business owners, parents, and other schools, helping to hold students accountable and keep them in the classroom.

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  • Challenged schools like East Aurora find a payoff in innovation

    Melissa Silverberg

    May 24, 2016 |

    Daily Herald |

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    Response Location: United States, Aurora, Illinois

    School districts in poverty-stricken areas have discovered that there is a benefit to thinking outside the box. There's no magic bullet to lead students out of poverty, but there may be different ways to engage them -- and keep them in school -- as East Aurora High and other poor schools are finding.

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  • Schools confront students' rising mental health toll

    James Vaznis

    May 17, 2016 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Marlborough, Massachusetts

    Over the last decade, many Massachusetts schools have seen the number of cases grow from just a few students a year being hospitalized for mental health issues to upwards of several dozen, often transforming guidance offices into de facto psychiatric wards, educators say.

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  • School system looks to restorative justice to curb police interventions

    Amy Friedenberger

    May 15, 2016 |

    The Roanoke Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

    A 'restorative justice' program in Roanoke schools aims to resolve in-school conflicts using teachers and staff, rather than referring issues to law enforcement.

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  • YouthBuild Philly Offers Local Dropouts a Second Chance

    Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

    May 11, 2016 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    YouthBuild focuses on a tough demographic: 18- to 21-year-old drop-outs who are eligible for neither regular high school nor adult education. The program mixes classroom learning and vocational education, qualifying them for entry-level jobs or college.

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  • Guiding a First Generation to College

    Tina Rosenberg

    April 26, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Students who are new to America or lack college-educated parents often don’t know their options. Increasing transparency about financial aid systems and encouraging students to strive for competitive schools are some of the ways that first-generation citizens can get a university education.

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  • Selling entrepreneurship to a million students

    Anna Patton

    April 11, 2016 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Educate!, a social enterprise started in Uganda, helps students start businesses while they are still in school - students are "creating jobs instead of looking for them." The organization trains teachers and youth mentors, who then work with the students in their schools to get businesses off the ground. A randomized trial conducted in 2014 found that graduates of the program earned double the income of their peers.

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  • Risky change in teaching pays off at Bellevue's Sammamish High

    John Higgins

    April 09, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    With help from a federal grant, a Bellevue high school asked its teachers to work with the University of Washington to redesign over 30 AP courses. An independent evaluation found that the move from traditional lecture test prep to "problem-based learning," or hands-on instruction, improved students' scores on AP tests.

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  • When students lead parent-teacher conferences

    Emily Richmond

    April 06, 2016 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsfield, New Hampshire

    'Student-centered learning' has taken on new life at one of the nation's lowest-performing high schools in the form of student-led parent-teacher conferences.

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  • Fenway High ‘test kitchen' cooking up districtwide menu changes

    James Vaznis

    April 04, 2016 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    A test kitchen set up at Fenway High School this year to try out new lunch items is slowly transforming cuisine across the school system, as part of an effort to expand more healthful food options for students.

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