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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
22 August 2021
Garrett County, Maryland, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Garrett County students were able to get back in school quickly because the district built trust with its community by providing families with crucial supplies, carefully planning the reopening, and communicating exte...
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Jonathan Levine
19 April 2021
South Sudan
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
As a way to help train frontline health workers in developing countries about childbirth practices and child health, a nurse practitioner launched a video production project to offer short instructional films. In the ...
Dallas Free Press
Sujata Dand
15 April 2021
Dallas, Texas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A wireless network is bringing fast and reliable internet service to students living within two miles of Lincoln High School. A large cell tower on the premises of the school is extending the WiFi to receivers given t...
16 March 2021
Grapevine, Texas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
iUniversity Prep, part of the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District, has consistently outperformed the state in student outcomes in Texas. The school has existed for over a decade and has found success by ...
14 February 2021
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Boston, four organizations that serve Black and Latino families formed an alliance to provide low-cost learning pods to students of color. Run out of two churches, the full-day learning pods “serve nearly two dozen...
5 February 2021
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Although the pandemic brought many difficulties to school across the globe, some institutions saw it as the time to innovate and rethink learning delivery. Cambridge High School Extension Program, "an alternative scho...
Lake Oconee News
Phillip B. Hubbard
5 February 2021
Greensboro, Georgia, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Greene County High School is Georgia has turned to using Canvas, a learning management system, during the coronavirus pandemic to not only deliver educational instruction, but to also help students take part in school...
1 February 2021
Port Angeles, Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A school in the city of Port Angeles has been reopened since October 2020, it offers valuable pandemic lessons for other schools that are in the process of reopening. Aside from logistical things like temperature chec...
24 January 2021
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Inmates to Entrepreneurs has graduated 1 million people from its eight-week program that teaches incarcerated people how to start their own low-capital businesses. An extension of a free online entrepreneurship course...
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...
21 January 2021
Los Angeles, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Step Up is a pilot tutoring program that was launched to help students in the Los Angeles Unified School District navigate virtual learning during the pandemic. The program is only open to 4th, 5th, and 6th graders, a...
19 January 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
When the pandemic forced jails and prisons to ban educational classes and cut off visits between outsiders and their loved ones behind bars, some jailers opened their facilities to remote-learning and -visiting tools....
19 January 2021
Fresno, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Educators at the Lighthouse for Children Child Development Center piloted a 45-minute, weekly, math zoom session for toddlers. Parents attend the zoom lesson, and they are taught by educators. The program can offer so...
18 January 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In order to mitigate the “pandemic slide,” a term that describes the educational loss that happened during the pandemic, Highline Public Schools implemented a strategy known as “acceleration.” The strategy is often ...
15 January 2021
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
In Michigan, state officials started offering child care subsidies to online learners ages 5-12, nearly 20,000 children enrolled. The aid is helping parents, guardians, and caretakers of school-age children continue t...
4 January 2021
Kenya
Text
800-1500 Words
In Sub-Saharan Africa, “almost half of schoolchildren, or a total of 121 million pupils, are unable to access remote learning,” according to a 2020 UNICEF report, an even bigger problem during a pandemic when students...
8 December 2020
New Hampshire, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Across the state of New Hampshire, school districts found themselves adjusting to the meet the particular needs of special needs students. Outside tents, remote games, and equipping paraprofessionals with Chromebooks,...
Christian Science Monitor
Sarah Matusek
2 December 2020
New Jersey, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
CS Remastered is a nonprofit that provides free individualized coding classes to students. The kind of one-on-one tutoring they might not get at school. The nonprofit was started by 17-year-old, Samvit Agarwal, who go...
30 November 2020
Rowland Heights, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
One school district is taking a creative approach to increase student attendance during the pandemic— care packages. In Rowland Unified School District, kindergarten teachers came up with the idea of sending care pack...
24 November 2020
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Youth experiencing unstable housing in New Haven, Connecticut can build life skills in exchange for gift cards through an app built by a nonprofit. DreamKit incentivizes positive change for disadvantaged young people ...
15 November 2020
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Teachers are having to restructure the way they teach due to the pandemic imposed challenges of virtual classes. This story chronicles how three different teachers adjusted their instruction. From having students brea...
12 November 2020
United Kingdom
Text
Under 800 Words
There isn’t a lot of media outlets providing age-appropriate news for children. So, four journalists came together to create “KidNuz,” a children’s news podcast. The show has garnered thousands of listeners. “Although...
9 November 2020
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Norfolk Public Schools had a unique approach to addressing student performance post-pandemic—giving students an incomplete instead of failing them. The move revealed racial disparities that allowed the district to res...
6 November 2020
Fresno, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Teachers in some California dual-language classrooms are coming up with creative ways to help students practice and learn languages during remote-only learning. Across Fresno Unified School District, teachers develop ...
28 October 2020
Philippines
Text
800-1500 Words
In the Philippines, more than half of households have limited access to the internet, making remote teaching challenging. Schools, teachers, and the government have found creative ways to reach students. Some teachers...
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