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Big Tech's Newest Experiment in Criminal-Justice Reform

Alexis C. Madrigal

August 29, 2018 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Building on the Last Mile program that teaches inmates to code in some California prisons, Slack launched an apprenticeship program for the formerly incarcerated. It's a small initiative compared to the vast need, but organizers hope other companies will join the effort. While Last Mile graduates have stayed out of prison, it's been challenging for them to find actual coding jobs and critics say the effort does not addresses systemic issues around incarceration.

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This Chef Serves Up a Future for Struggling Kids

Judith Fein

August 16, 2018 |

NationSwell |

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Response Location: United States, Santa Fe, New Mexico

The YouthWorks Culinary Program has given encouragement and professional opportunities to Santa Fe youth. After working at the program’s popular food truck and in its catering business, some participants have landed jobs at local restaurants.

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Vocational Training Is Back as Firms Pair With High Schools to Groom Workers

Michelle Hackman

August 13, 2018 |

Wall Street Journal |

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Response Location: United States, Coventry, Rhode Island

Volkswagen and Tesla are among a growing number of high profile companies turning to high schools to recruit entry level employees. Proponents believe this new model of career education is more effective because it responds to a clear demand, while critics worry that by tailoring the training so closely to a given company, students may have trouble changing their career or education path down the road.

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Haiti Bans Overage Students From Secondary Education, but One School Has a Solution

Marie Michelle Felicien

August 13, 2018 |

Global Press Journal |

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Response Location: Haiti, Port-au-Prince

In Haiti, students past a certain age, many of whom had to help their parents with farm work or didn't have money for transportation, are not allowed to enroll in primary school. The École de la Réussite, started in 2012, is filling this gap by offering students vocational skills training and the lessons required to apply to private secondary schools.

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School Started by Refugee Students Now One of Uganda's Best

Tonny Onyulo

August 09, 2018 |

Al-Fanar Media |

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Response Location: Uganda

In 2005 refugee youth at the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, founded the Coburwas school in order to provide students with a better education. Now, it is one of the best performing schools in the camps, ranking in the top four nationally, and has about 530 students. More importantly, students get a quality education, which is hard to come by at the camp where many of the schools are low performing.

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Throw the books at them: How more training for Wisconsin's prisoners could help companies

David D. Haynes

July 26, 2018 |

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

In Wisconsin, the Department of Corrections is tailoring their prison education programs to meet the needs of the job market, and it is benefitting former inmates as well as the economy. Milwaukee Area Technical College works to get inmates credentials, which helps them get jobs upon release from prison. The investment pays off. For every dollar spent educating inmates, the government saves $5 in the years after their release.

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Can 'Work Colleges' in Cities Become a Low-Cost, High-Value Model for the Future?

Delece Smith-Barrow

July 26, 2018 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

Dallas' Paul Quinn College is changing the dated perception of work colleges. At the first urban and historically black work college, students are graded on both academic and workforce performance. In the next few years, Paul Quinn hopes to expand its model into a national network of schools, with the goal of introducing students to corporate connections and offering an alternative to overwhelming student debt.

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Girls-Only Trade Classes Are Becoming More Popular—and They're Upending Gender Stereotypes

Brenda Iaesvoli

July 20, 2018 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

Schools across the U.S. have started offering girls-only auto trade classes as a way to encourage more females to participate in the often male-dominated vocational courses. Brenda Iasevoli writes "Shop class, it seems, is a new path to female empowerment." The classes also help to address the shortage of skilled workers in the auto repair, construction, and welding industries.

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Getting low-income kids into jobs by getting them into career-themed high schools

Bekah McNeel

July 16, 2018 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

In San Antonio, career-themed schools are at the center “of a growing push to more closely match the skills students gather in high school with workforce needs.” The Center for Applied Science and Technology (CAST), described as akin to “an outpost of Google,” works with industry partners to connect students with local jobs and ensure lessons are up to date, all while emphasizing socioeconomic integration through an approach called “diversity by design.”

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You've Served Your Time. Now You're Told You Can't Cut Hair.

Ashley Nerbovig

July 10, 2018 |

The Marshall Project |

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Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

A number of states have passed reforms aimed at helping people coming out of incarceration get licenses that are key to well-paying jobs, which in turn help people stay out of prison. But there are still numerous hurdles in other states around criminal histories and background checks that keep people with felony records from entering those professions. Those requirements have cost the economy nearly three million jobs according to one report, and disproportionately affect people of color.

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