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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
22 July 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Alderman Matt Martin worked with school leaders to involve students in determining how to spend discretionary funding for their school. After learning about local governance, participatory budgeting, and how infrastru...
2 July 2021
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Restorative discipline in classrooms is allowing students to focus on building relationships and repairing harm instead of suffering punishments. The practice prioritizes communication in an effort to emphasize commun...
26 May 2021
Cicero, Illinois, United States
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Over 3000 Words
"Gang contracts" are used by many schools as a way to tell students they are suspected of gang activity and must avoid such activity or face discipline or expulsion. Gang contracts have been put to extensive use in th...
25 May 2021
Plymouth, Minnesota, United States
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1500-3000 Words
As New Hampshire schools debate the presence of police officers stationed in schools, one model they and other states can consider is found at Minnesota Intermediate School District 287. That district lowered in-schoo...
30 April 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A participatory budgeting pilot in ten Chicago Public Schools empowers students to influence change by deciding how small grants, typically $1,000 to $2,000, should be spent for school improvement. Students brainstorm...
7 April 2021
Sedalia, Missouri, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Seven teen suicides in one county over a two-year span prompted residents whose lives were touched by suicide to form DeFeet, an educational and advocacy group devoted to the message that suicide is preventable. Thank...
The New Yorker
Ian Frazier
29 March 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
One of dozens of community-based anti-violence groups in New York City, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence teaches high schoolers classes on gun-violence prevention that carry an underlying message: how to fight their c...
The Philadelphia Citizen
Jessica Blatt Press
9 March 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Amy Edelstein thought that if high school students knew how to meditate they could learn how to focus, stay on track, and regulate negative self-talk. They could become better. So, in 2014 she started the Inner Streng...
8 March 2021
Sacramento, California, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Jesuit High School in Northern California has remained open in full for two months without encountering a single outbreak of Covid-19 amongst school attendants. While it hasn't been inexpensive, the parochial school r...
7 March 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Kids Under Twenty One has taken phone calls from thousands of St. Louis-area youth to its 24/7 crisis hotline and has educated many more students at 60 schools in four counties. Teens staff the hotline, a rarity. KUTO...
18 February 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
About “1,500 (High School) students from 75 of the nation’s poorest schools in 35 cities,” are enrolling in college courses in elite universities like Harvard and Columbia through an initiative started by a nonprofit—...
8 February 2021
Israel
Text
800-1500 Words
Despite the evidence of early interventions when children are failing academic, a now-defunct Israeli remedial high school program had long lasting effects on the participants. The teens that participated in the progr...
23 December 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Baltimore, a non-profit known as the Next One Up program is helping young men who are struggling in school by supporting and advancing their academic, athletic, and social development through small group activities...
12 October 2020
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
High schools and colleges across California are turning to virtual campus tours and remote recruiting in order to appeal to college-bound students. College representatives are hosting Zoom sessions to connect with stu...
22 September 2020
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Dual credit classes were a response to the increasing costs of attending college and university and to make postsecondary education more accessible to low-income students. Although low-income and minority students a...
11 September 2020
United States
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
Students taking AP U.S. History at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, may have been limited in their ability to attend in-person classes, but their teacher decided to supplement their lessons by taking on a 15-day...
20 August 2020
New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Thinkubator, a Bronx-based nonprofit, launched "Thinkubator Solves" a virtual internship program that pairs Bronx high school students with local businesses. The paid one-month summer internship allows students to...
Science Magazine
Elizabeth Pennisi
15 July 2020
New Hampshire, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Due to the pandemic, university professors teaching field and lab work courses are rethinking ways to provide what was formerly a strictly in-person, hands-on experience. In New Hampshire staff at a marine laboratory ...
13 July 2020
Pakistan
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Pakistani government uses technology, like a state-owned TV channel that broadcasts content for grades 1-12 and apps sourced for free by ed-tech companies, to help the over 50 million school children without broad...
Chalkbeat
Kalyn Belsha
19 June 2020
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
Prompted by Black Lives Matter protesters and informed by a controversial survey of high school students on their feelings about having police stationed in their schools, Toronto pulled police from its schools in 2017...
17 June 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Minneapolis school board’s vote to remove police from public schools arose not only from protests over the police killing of George Floyd, but also from a long-term advocacy project to end the so-called school-to-...
Jackson Hole News & Guide
Tom Hallberg
3 June 2020
Wyoming, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Schools in Teton County are successfully addressing the achievement gap between English language learners, kids who don't have a strong grasp on English, and white students by taking a holistic approach. In order to i...
28 May 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
As high schoolers across the nation grapple with the stress of the sudden shift to online learning, unstable home environments, and for some students the toll of coronavirus on family members, school counselors are lo...
3 April 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
When the pandemic forced schools to cancel in-person classes, the pivot to virtual lessons had to be fast and efficient. In Chicago, three charter school networks were able to make the switch quickly, while innovating...
Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel)
Dave Solomon
18 March 2020
New Hampshire, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
School districts across New Hampshire went into action to feed their students quickly after in-person classes had to be canceled due to the pandemic. Some districts incorporated community volunteers in order to increa...
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