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23 October 2013
Putnam, Connecticut, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Students have challenges retaining information, staying motivated, and keeping up with the pace of their classes. In a flipped mastery class, teachers make video lectures for students to watch at home, and at school s...
15 October 2013
Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico
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Over 3000 Words
Around the world, a new way of teaching and learning is gaining traction – and seeing results. Rooted in educational theory from the likes of Socrates, Piaget, and Montessori, this method is led by students’ curiosity...
9 October 2013
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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What is the best use of a teacher’s precious face-to-face classroom time? It’s working one-on-one with students, not lecturing. To free up more time for the important stuff, some teachers are now recording videos of t...
30 September 2013
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
The high school graduation and college matriculation rates are especially low for minority students. But some use tactics, like staying busy with extracurriculars and relying on guidance support systems, to ensure tha...
9 September 2013
Michigan, United States
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Under 800 Words
Inmates who get correctional education are less likely to become repeat offenders, but education costs money. An organization is funding educational opportunities for prisoners in various cities in the U.S. to improve...
18 August 2013
Oakland, California, United States
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In Oakland, black males are almost as likely to be killed as they are to graduate high school. One school is giving them special classes with black mentors to better address their emotional needs and keep them in scho...
18 August 2013
Oakland, California, United States
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Young black males in Oakland are suspended more frequently and graduate high school at a much lower rate than their peers. A charter school specifically designed for African American boys focuses on providing them wit...
25 June 2013
Cairo, Egypt
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800-1500 Words
Arab Open University is making education accessible for students in seven middle eastern countries. The seven separate campuses offer “a blend of campuses-based and online learning,”flexible class times, and affordabl...
31 May 2013
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Chicago's progress in lowering the dropout rate is in part because of a network of charter schools around the city that provide small, alternative programs that specialize in serving students who have dropped out or a...
15 May 2013
Bronx, New York, United States
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Blue Engine, which places recent college grads as full-time teaching assistants in New York City public schools, is helping poor students thrive in college. They focus on small teacher-student ratios, frequent feedbac...
The Washington Post
Michael Alison Chandler
13 May 2013
Manassas, Virginia, United States
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800-1500 Words
Through programs across the country, nurses, social workers, or trained mentors offer support to new or expectant parents, imparting skills to help them become better teachers for their children. Through regular home ...
8 May 2013
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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1500-3000 Words
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 compre...
United Nations University
Sarah Hasaba
8 May 2013
Kenya
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1500-3000 Words
Many of the issues facing underdeveloped rural communities stem from low rates of literacy. Researchers have found that cooperation between "formal and non-formal education systems" is an effective method in strengthe...
1 May 2013
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Young people are often viewed as needing protection or needing correction. However, a Boston organization is creating young peacemakers and powerful change makers by taking kids seriously and giving them the tools to ...
3 April 2013
Karnataka, India
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1500-3000 Words
To combat hunger and malnutrition, Digital Green, an N.G.O., is creating and delivering videos about cheap, innovative farming techniques that can substantially increase small farmers' production of staple foods in In...
29 March 2013
Virginia, United States
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800-1500 Words
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 w...
21 February 2013
London, United Kingdom
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Under 800 Words
For many years, students in London's secondary schools consistently scored worse on exams than their peers in other parts of the country, but now, other regions are looking to London as a model. Under the "London Chal...
14 December 2012
Queens, New York, United States
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
School MS 53 in Queens experienced extremely poor student attendance, a high rate of student suspensions, and an increase of staff and teacher resignations—all causing the city’s department of education to give the sc...
25 September 2012
Staten Island, New York, United States
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Over 3000 Words
For decades, no one at New Dorp public high school seemed to know how to help low-performing students, and unfortunately, this troubled population made up most of the school, which caters primarily to students from po...
19 September 2012
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
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 redirec...
14 September 2012
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
As kids and teachers head back to school, we wanted to turn away from questions about politics and unions and money and all the regular school stuff people argue about, and turn to something more optimistic — an emerg...
11 July 2012
United States
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1500-3000 Words
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...
15 February 2012
New York, New York, United States
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Many qualified students lack the motivation to follow through attending college due to a lack of peer support. A highly successful U.S. program sends great inner-city students to elite colleges in groups – one key to ...
19 January 2012
Kailalia District, Nepal
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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.
5 January 2012
Richmond, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
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...
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