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  • Several colleges start programs to help foster youth earn degrees

    December 01, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    For the past ten years, the Seita Scholars Program has provided financial, academic, social, and emotional support to students at Western Michigan State University who have spent time in foster care. Each student is assigned a "campus coach" to guide them through adjusting to all parts of college life.

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  • Teacher leaders improve learning, attract teachers to underserved districts

    November 29, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Edgecombe, North Carolina

    A school district in North Carolina is at the cutting edge of a new teaching model - to multiply the impact of the most effective teachers and draw them to underserved districts, schools are paying these teachers more to coach their colleagues in addition to continuing to teach their own classrooms. So far, 50,000 students across the country are learning under the "teacher-leader" model.

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  • A school figures out how to educate foster youth

    November 24, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A South Bronx charter school is trying an innovative approach to educating all students, including the one third of its student body in foster care. By adding teachers, behavioral specialists, and extra academic support and relying on a trauma-informed and repetitive structure, Mott Haven Charter School has gradually seen improvement, with its foster youth outperforming other children in the welfare system.

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  • Alaska Native students pursue STEM, with great success

    November 19, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

    Middle and high school students of Alaska Native descent enrolled in the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program at the University of Alaska, Anchorage outperform most of their peers in the rest of the country on math and science standards. The program encourages collaboration, hands-on learning, and community building and fights back against negative stereotypes of Alaska Natives that have been shaped by generations of repeated trauma.

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  • How one tiny town is battling ‘rural brain drain'

    October 24, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Onalaska, Washington

    Although only 16 percent of residents in Onalaska, Washington hold a bachelor's degree, all 43 seniors in the class of 2017 were accepted to college. Even as more students are college bound, in the past five years, the town's population has grown and the median age has decreased. So how is Onalaska fighting the "brain drain" that plagues other towns?

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  • Students analyze rap lyrics with code in digital humanities class

    October 18, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States

    As more states have added computer science courses to required education standards, teachers are taking creative approaches to integrating computer science into traditional subjects such as music and social studies. “When I think about entering a digital future, it’s simply understanding how machines work on a conceptual level and understanding what they can do," one high school English teacher says.

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  • A rural Montana district goes all in on makerspaces

    October 11, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Havre, Montana

    A coalition of philanthropic and professional development organizations are partnering with a rural Montana school district to provide donated hardware and software and professional development training. By developing "makerspaces," the initiative aims to ensure students and teachers learn tech literacy, a skillset many of their urban and suburban counterparts take for granted.

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  • Teaching to the student, not the test

    October 04, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Revere, Massachusetts

    Although Massachusetts has been slow to join the personalized learning movement, when Revere High School, a predominantly immigrant and low income population, decided to adopt the approach, it quickly gained national attention. Teachers consult students on curriculum decisions and senior leadership frequently visit teachers classes to create a culture of accountability.

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  • The Hellerup School: Lessons from a school without walls

    October 02, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Denmark

    An innovative school and architectural endeavor in Denmark offers 16 years of lessons for the increasingly popular personalized learning movement. At the Hellerup School, students check in with their teachers at the beginning of the lesson and then disperse throughout the open-plan building to work where they are most productive. While the school has found the model highly rewarding, in recent years, Hellerup has grappled with how to build more group interactions into the intensely individualized curriculum.

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  • Colleges are starting to teach blockchain technology -- but its not enough for some

    September 17, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Berkeley, California

    While some universities have been hesitant to let blockchain technology into the traditional halls of academia, UC Berkeley has started offering blockchain entrepreneurship courses and student-run blockchain clubs and is actively looking for more ways to collaborate with industry partners. But UC Berkeley is also the first to admit the transition has challenges - those interviewed cited the lack of infrastructure, rapid rate of technological change, and uniquely multidisciplinary nature of the subject area as barriers to timely and enthusiastic adoption.

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