Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
19 May 2021
Dallas, Texas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
At Aunt Bette's Community Pantry in Dallas, people receiving donated food are treated with dignity and given choices that can have both psychological and nutritional benefits. A client-choice food pantry mimics a groc...
3 March 2021
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Middle school teachers in San Antonio, Texas, have resorted to home visits and "nudging," meaning they leave notices for parents at the door with information about consequences, at the first sign of students disengagi...
28 February 2021
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Determined to keep San Antonio schools open, the newly created nonprofit Community Labs is running an assurance testing operation at a size and scale unique in the country. Used with other mitigation strategies, assur...
21 January 2021
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
To counteract learning loss imposed by the pandemic, San Antonio teachers are focusing on the most essential skills- reading and math for kindergartners through second graders. By prioritizing a specific set of skills...
28 September 2020
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In San Antonio, the Guadalupe Community Center is providing a free “day school” for children of working-class families in the city’s poorest zip code. The center serves around 30 K-12 students where they can safely ...
26 August 2020
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
There is a race problem within Christian schools. More than half of non-Catholic Christian schools reported that 80 percent of their students are white. At a time of heightened racial tensions in America, some evangel...
30 June 2020
Texas, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
As thousands of students across the country stopped showing up to remote classes, schools scrambled to make contact. One Texas Band Director built on his relationships to localize his students. “He had relationships ...
13 August 2019
San Antonio, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
There is a certain population of youth aged 16-24 that are neither in school nor working because of some derailment (oftentimes burdensome responsibilities) along the way. A national organization called Nxt Level help...
22 April 2019
El Paso, Texas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
For undocumented youth who commute between El Paso, Texas and Juárez, Mexico for school, finding a community to connect with and feel safe in is especially challenging. The Christian youth organization Young Life is t...
4 March 2019
Brownsville, Texas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In 2013 and 2016, Brownsville, Texas was ranked the poorest city in the U.S. That hasn't stopped students in the border district from outperforming their wealthier Texan peers. Leaders credit data-based interventions,...
11 December 2018
Dallas, Texas, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Several Dallas-based ACE (Accelerating Campus Excellence) schools focus on social-emotional learning and restorative justice education. High performing teachers participate in professional learning communities and rec...
6 December 2018
El Paso, Texas, United States
Multi-Media
3-5 Minutes
The University of Texas at El Paso, among other universities such as Princeton or Georgia State, are making concerted efforts to ensure the success of their first generation or low-income students in a student body th...
26 October 2018
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Multi-Media
3-5 Minutes
In areas of high poverty, students in San Antonio, Texas are highly encouraged and supported to take the next step after high school to go on to challenging universities and gain a degree. Their efforts, which include...
16 July 2018
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
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), d...
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