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Discutiendo soluciones educativas para familias que hablan español

Chelsea Moreno

December 16, 2020 |

KXAN-TV |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Un grupo de periodistas que documentaron las soluciones creadas por centros educativos y educadores, a problemas educativos causados por la pandemia, comparten sus ideas, recursos y retos para que se puedan fortalecer y replicar.

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Mother-daughter trio brings the great outdoors to children living in the city

Mike Brookbank

December 16, 2020 |

WEWS-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

A mother-daughter trio started the nonprofit See You at the Top as a way to get children engaged in outdoor sports where there is traditionally a lack of people of color represented. The program has reached hundreds of families who have participated in activities like skiing, snowboarding, and biking. "As a culture, we distance ourselves from these activities and say that's not what we do, but we have to begin to see ourselves in these outdoor spaces and know it is something we can all do and enjoy together," said one of the cofounders.

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The child trafficking survivors training to prosecute sex crimes

Neha Bhatt

December 16, 2020 |

Al Jazeera |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India, Kolkata

The School for Justice provides an education in law or advocacy to young women who have survived sex trafficking. The program started in Kolkata in 2017 and has expanded to Mumbai and Katmandu. Forty students receive housing, counseling, and free tuition to the local university of their choice, where they can study to be lawyers, paralegals, social workers, police officers, or journalists. The goal is to equip them with the tools they need to protect others from child sexual exploitation and to bring perpetrators to justice. Along the way, they begin to heal through empowerment and peer support.

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Дети – агенты изменений. Как работает раздельный сбор мусора в школах Николаева

Danylo Herasymov

December 16, 2020 |

Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Ukraine, Mykolayiv

Україна посідає дев'яте місце в переліку країн із найбільшим обсягом сміття на душу населення. У Миколаєві міська влада та громадська організація об'єдналися, щоб сортувати відходи у школах міста. "Загалом проєкт залучив 20,000 школярів, яким за рік вдалося зібрати, відсортувати й надіслати на переробку 119 тонн сміття". Програма довела свою успішність, школярі змагаються за першість у сортуванні. Діти таки є "нашими агентами змін". Інші міста виявляють прагнення запровадити програму для власних шкіл.

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How one school became a ‘COVID-19 Safety Zone' through innovative testing

Laney Valian

December 15, 2020 |

KXAN-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

High school students at Somerset High School in San Antonio, Texas get tested every week for COVID-19. The method is called “assurance testing,” and is a way to target “silent spreaders,” people who have COVID who don’t show symptoms and spread the virus to the larger community. With assurance testing, silent spreaders are quickly identified, preventing them from spreading COVID. “Of the 70,000 tests Community Labs has run so far, 1,700 were identified as positive for COVID-19. Most of those positive test results came from people who were asymptomatic and had no idea they had the virus.”

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National organization repurposes summer camps, combating ‘summer slide' in reading and math

Catenya McHenry

December 14, 2020 |

KXAN-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

As summer programs across the country shut down to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School summer program in Austin tried was forced to quickly pivot to virtual learning. They had to make large technological purchases, hire a help desk staff, reached out to volunteers, and had to figure out how to get students to log on.

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‘Backpacks full of boulders': How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

Kavitha Cardoza

December 14, 2020 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, Adelphi, Maryland

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 officials are using their budget to spend it on resources to help educators and undocumented students succeed academically by hiring trauma specialists, bilingual liaisons, and teacher aides. “The most important reason is it is morally, really spiritually, inappropriate to mistreat the children who come from these families and not give them equal opportunity.”

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Distrito Escolar usa tecnología para ayudar a familias que hablan español

Chad Mira Chelsea Moreno

December 14, 2020 |

KXAN-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Springdale, Arkansas

Las escuelas públicas de Springdale, en Arkansas (Estados Unidos), han invertido mucho en mejoras en las comunicaciones para ayudar al 47% de los estudiantes hispanos y al 13% de los estudiantes de origegn marshalés del distrito, muchos de los cuales están aprendiendo inglés como segundo idioma. El distrito ha contratado a miembros del personal bilingües para crear contenido en varios idiomas y transmitirlo en una variedad de plataformas, además de haber aumentado un 20% su presupuesto de comunicación.

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Cómo los educadores están encontrando a miles de estudiantes que no podían alcanzar cuando empezó la pandemia

Jennifer Sanders Laney Valian Chelsea Moreno

December 14, 2020 |

KXAN-TV |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Leander, Texas

Una combinación de creación de redes informales y visitas de casa en casa permitieron a distritos escolares en Texas a rastrear estudiantes "perdidos" a raíz de la pandemia, y dejando lecciones sobre cómo fortalecer estas relaciones a futuro.

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As Harlem Children's Zone moves to export its model nationwide, Obama's Promise Neighborhoods offer cautionary tales

Amadou Diallo

December 11, 2020 |

The Hechinger Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Under the Obama administration, the Promise Neighborhoods initiative was launched. It granted over $430 million in multiyear grants to nonprofits across 17 cities. The success of these grants have been difficult to measure. Two of the programs that were awarded grants highlight the differences in communities, and how success can’t be measured one way, but across a spectrum. “These first five years are like finding yourself,” said Lepore. “It’s an opportunity to find out what’s working, what isn’t and what we need to invest in.”

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