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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
14 December 2020
Adelphi, Maryland, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Prince George's County in Maryland ranks fourth in the country for the number of unaccompanied students with sponsors. Often, these students have experienced a lot of trauma by the time they arrive at school. School o...
9 October 2019
Dayton, Ohio, United States
Multi-Media
5-15 Minutes
Building connections and learning to cope can help to break the inter-generational cycle of addiction. The nonprofit Eluna operates a camp in Dayton, Ohio, for children whose families have been ravaged by addiction. I...
25 October 2017
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Radio
Over 15 Minutes
The almost all-black student body at Ron Brown College Prep are met with an almost all-black faculty, cultural competent and responsive instruction, an understanding of the impact of trauma many students bring to the ...
1 July 2016
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
The Padua Project in Fort Worth, Texas, has set a goal of getting 100 poor people out of poverty in three years — with a job, three months’ savings and off government assistance. But, is it working?
30 June 2016
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Padua Project is an innovative program that has a goal of getting poor people out of poverty in three years with a job, three months’ savings and off government assistance. Its unusual success involved a collaboration...
29 June 2016
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
One of the challenges is that social workers who help poor people typically have large caseloads of clients and lots of paperwork, often leading to burnout. The Padua Project is trying to change that with what they ca...
28 June 2016
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
For five decades, tens of thousands of people have fought poverty. Trillions of dollars have been spent, but poverty is a stubborn enemy. In the second part of a five-part series, WAMU’s Kavitha Cardoza tells us about...
21 September 2015
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Across the globe, there are nearly 60 million students studying in Catholic institutions. In the United States, however, those numbers have been falling in recent years, forcing schools to come up with new ways to col...
1 August 2014
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Today, the Posse Foundation selects 700 students from 10 cities and sends them in groups of 10 to colleges all over the country, creating networks of support to help them succeed. Most are low-income students of color...
1 August 2014
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Many military children are resilient, but there are also a lot in public schools across the U.S. who experience difficulties. School Liaison Officers help those children by bridging the gap between the military and th...
1 August 2014
Auburn, Washington, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Only $2 billion a year is spent on adult education in the U.S. A Washington State program is making the best of that minimal funding by combining skills training with basic education, preparing adults for jobs. The se...
1 August 2014
Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
As many as 40 percent of the approximately 2 million military children in the United States are under the age of 5. Educating these young learners has become a priority in recent decades, and the military has become a...
1 August 2014
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Department of Defense schools boast high test scores, have high graduation rates and are very popular with military families who make use of them. Many choose to live on base just so their children can attend these sc...
2 November 2013
Shoreline, Washington, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
When adults want to return to school, they face many challenges including the experience of long waitlists for classes, and poor relevance to the job skills they need for future employment. The Washington state commun...
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