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Why Are Free College Programs So Successful?

Dwyer Gunn

July 19, 2018 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: United States, Tennessee

Since 2014, nine states have introduced free college programs for all high school graduates attending in-state community college and technical schools. Unlike other similar initiatives, this model targets all populations and is not merit-based or intended solely for low-income students. This article weighs the pros, cons, and sustainability of the increasingly popular solution.

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Can't Afford a Lawyer?

Christie Thompson

July 19, 2018 |

The Marshall Project |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, Washington

Washington state is piloting an initiative to increase access to legal aid for low-income folks. For civil issues such as divorces or evictions, the state has “legal technicians,” which are licensed professionals who fall between attorneys and paralegals. Legal technicians offer services for a fraction of the cost. Other states are looking to scale the solution, such as Utah and Oregon, but there is also some pushback from attorneys’ groups.

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Innovation schools are a cross between public and charter. Could they come to Rochester?

Justin Murphy

July 18, 2018 |

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

Recent reports show steady improvement for students attending Indianapolis’ Innovation Schools - a unique model that “marries the autonomy of charter schools with the resources and scale of a school district.” While Innovation Schools are controlled by an outside nonprofit or board of directors and are free to make their own curriculum decisions, they rely on the public school system for a number of key resources and their test scores count towards the district's overall performance. Could this structure work in other states with varying political cultures surrounding charters and unions?

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How a doctor inspired a new way to train teachers — and how that is leading to a new kind of school

Erin Einhorn

July 18, 2018 |

Chalkbeat |

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Response Location: United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan

To combat low retention rates and short training times for new educators, the University of Michigan - along with other programs around the country - are testing models for teacher education based off training for doctors. With the new approach, new teachers continue to receive personalized training and mentorship from veteran teachers throughout their early career instead of being "thrown into" their first classroom after only a semester of student-teaching.

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Parents Behaving Badly: A Youth Sports Crisis Caught on Video

Bill Pennington

July 18, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

New supports are being put into place for the referees of youth sports leagues in order to stop or punish harassment. These include signs, monitors in the stands, and a Facebook page that publicly shames out of control patients.

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For Some Migrant Worker Children in College, a Free Sandwich Can Make All the Difference

Wayne D'Orio

July 17, 2018 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

At California University State-Fresno, 64 percent of students enrolled in a migrant support program graduate within six years, compared with 56 percent of first-generation students at the university. The College Assistance Migrant Program offers students lessons on topics ranging from how to cook meals to how to interact with professors. Since 1972, CAMP has helped these children of migrant workers go to college and its strategies have improved the odds for first-generation students to graduate.

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Getting low-income kids into jobs by getting them into career-themed high schools

Bekah McNeel

July 16, 2018 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

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), described as akin to “an outpost of Google,” works with industry partners to connect students with local jobs and ensure lessons are up to date, all while emphasizing socioeconomic integration through an approach called “diversity by design.”

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Somaliland Uses Phones to Help Improve Schools

Doreen Aijambo

July 16, 2018 |

Al-Fanar Media |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Somaliland

Similar to other countries in Africa, Somaliland is using technology to better education. There, an estimated 150,000 parents use a free-mobile messaging tool to communicate about school conditions with the government. The capital of Somaliland engages in “community scorecards,” a mobile survey of thousands of students and their parents regarding their schooling.

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How New Orleans Is Helping Its Students Succeed

David Leonhardt

July 15, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

Calling New Orleans' post-Katrina school reform "the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America," journalist David Leonhardt outlines what he sees as the two main pillars holding up New Orleans' success -- autonomy and accountability. Leonhardt writes, "New Orleans is a great case study partly because it avoids many of the ambiguities of other education reform efforts. The charters here educate almost all public-school students, so they can’t cherry pick." Can other districts, who aren't starting from scratch, learn from the city's remarkable progress?

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Door Step School Brings Education to Out-of-School Children in India

Shruthi Nair

July 14, 2018 |

Borgen Magazine |

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Response Location: India, Mumbai

The Door Step School group is making education accessible to disadvantaged communities across India. Part of that approach included its mobile classroom, School on Wheels, where a bus with a driver, instructor, and a supervisor head out to different communities and host up to 50 pupils at a time.

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