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Adaptive Technology Programs Turn to Robotics and IoT to Help People Who Have Disabilities

Dawn Kawamoto

July 06, 2018 |

Government Technology |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Governments and schools are investing in technology to better serve people of different abilities. Innovations include text-to-911 for deaf and hard-of-hearing citizens, robotic telepresence for remote students, and the Vitals app, which allows families and caregivers to alert police officers of ways to help developmentally disabled family members.

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Wireless in Gaza: the whizz-kids making code not war

Oliver Holmes, Hazem Balousha

July 05, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Palestine, Gaza City

A coding academy in Gaza in the Occupied Territories trains young people computer skills and how to think like entrepreneurs, in a quest to offer alternative futures beyond endless conflict. With support from international funders and nonprofits, the academy is on its fourth cohort and graduates are receiving business from international clients. It's a way to develop paying jobs and industry in a place where it's very difficult to do business as usual.

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Getting Student Power Into the Voting Booth

David Bornstein

July 04, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

The ALL IN challenge implores leaders at colleges across the United States to better incorporate civic engagement education into curriculum and use non-partisan tactics to encourage students to register to vote. The recent push is in part a response to the discouraging results published by Tufts University in 2014 - during that year's midterm election, only 12 percent of college students voted, and for the 2016 presidential election, less than half cast their vote.

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Educated Afghan women offer economic resilience in the face of climate change and conflict

Beth Murphy

July 04, 2018 |

PBS NewsHour |

Broadcast TV News |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, where climate change is drying up previously productive farms, female education has taken on a new importance. A recent Brookings Institution study found that for "every additional year of school a girl receives, her country is better prepared for, and better able to recover from climate disasters."

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This College For Adult Learners Is A Refuge, Not Just A Career Boost

Anya Kamenetz

July 04, 2018 |

NPR |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Tacoma, Washington

At Evergeen State College's Tacoma undergraduate program, most students are women and people of color, the average age is 38, and 10 to 20 percent of attendees have been incarcerated. Compared to other schools, where one in three returning students complete a degree within several years, two out of three Tacoma students finish within the first two years. Tacoma encourages students to create their own courses to study and address the societal inequalities many have experienced in their own lives.

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Meet the robots teaching Singapore's kids tech

Jack Graham

July 04, 2018 |

Apolitical |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Singapore

Since Singapore introduced the "Play Maker" program for preschoolers in 2016, it has seen wide-ranging benefits. By integrating interactive robots into the school day, the curriculum increases students' exposure to technology and engineering skills without increasing the much feared screen time. On a small scale, the program has been proven to reshape engrained STEM gender stereotypes and help students master programming skills.

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Two Seattle tech-training programs — why did one succeed, one fail?

Katherine Long

July 02, 2018 |

The Seattle Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Two federally-funded Seattle tech training programs tasked with increasing diversity in the industry returned dramatically different results over the course of one year. Experts credit Apprenti's employer-driven nature, use of an online screening tool, and close ties with the local tech community with its relative success in placing 220 people in apprenticeships in its first 18 months. 94 percent of applicants to Aprenti's program were women, veterans, or persons of color, with only 55 percent holding a post-secondary degree.

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Personalized learning is the new education reform hiding in plain sight

Laura Pappano

July 02, 2018 |

The Hechinger Report |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

Journalist Laura Pappano travels to Texas to examine how one school is enacting "personalized learning," a trend she suspects may be "more revolutionary than we think." At Dan D. Rogers Elementary School in Dallas, students are taught to lead their own learning starting in their first days of kindergarten. Pappano weighs the pros and cons of the approach, looking at technology and educational equity in these increasingly popular schools.

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After Decades of Reform, Has Chicago Finally Learned How to Fix Education?

J. Brian Charles

July 01, 2018 |

Governing |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

In 2017, researchers found that Chicago elementary and middle school students were improving their test scores at a faster pace than almost all of their peers nationwide. Reflecting on this surprising statistic and lessons learned from 30 years of education reform experimentation, CPS points to its emphasis on high quality principal development and teacher mentoring programs as one of the most crucial factors in the turnaround.

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How an Unknown Reformer Rescued One of America's Most Troubled School Districts

Eliza Shapiro

June 30, 2018 |

Politico |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

In his five years as superintendent of Camden public schools, Paymon Rouhanifard shepherded in a new era of increasing graduation and decreasing suspension rates. Rouhanifard "avoided the extremes of zigzagging educational trends" and combined his background as both a politician and an educator to offer up a long term path to improvement, one that took into consideration the fate of public and charter schools alike. As Rouhanifard moves on, he leaves a unique legacy, one he hopes will prove resistant to the whims of short-term education reform trends.

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