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In Rural Guatemala, Can This School Make “The Girl Effect” Happen?

Emily Kaplan

May 23, 2019 |

Bright Magazine |

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Response Location: Guatemala

The MAIA Impact School, inspired by New York City's well-known KIPP charter schools, gives scholarships to ambitious indigenous girls in Guatemala with the aim of "propel[ing] them from poverty and isolation into the most elite spheres of Guatemalan society." School administrators are gradually learning how to adapt the model to a new setting with new expectations and teachers.

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Finland is winning the war on fake news. Other nations want the blueprint

Eliza Mackintosh

May 18, 2019 |

CNN |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Finland, Helsinki

Teaching students to fact check encourages resilience and builds resistance to the post-truth phenomenon. In Finland, a school curriculum implemented at the national level equips elementary and high school students with a digital literacy toolkit geared toward recognizing disinformation online. In addition to specific exercises spotting fake news on social media platforms, a critical thinking curriculum is built into all subjects. Finland's success in fostering a social resilience against disinformation also draws on lessons from the country's oftentimes fraught history with its eastern neighbor.

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‘Now I Am Speaking to the Whole World.' How Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Got Everyone to Listen

Suyin Hayes

May 16, 2019 |

Time Magazine |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

Climate change activist, Greta Thunberg, has sparked global action. The 16-year-old has started marches totalling over 1.5 million people, continuous protests and strikes, and spoken to world leaders at events such as the U.N Climate Change Conference and the World Economic Forum. Her activism has had noticeable impacts, like a decline in flight travel in Sweden, and spurring youth activism on an international scale.

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The Kitchen as Classroom: How Food Helps Students Learn Leadership

Zenobia Jeffries

May 07, 2019 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

The Detroit Food Academy brings together local educators, chefs, and business owners to teach youth and young adults in the city business and entrepreneurship skills through cooking lessons and opportunities. The program is instructing students “how to think about entrepreneurship, equity and production in the food industry, and getting a wide range of experiences to help them understand food sovereignty.”

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St. Vrain, with a decade of momentum, is on a “high-tech high” that's gaining national attention for its students and teachers

Christopher Osher

April 30, 2019 |

The Colorado Sun |

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Response Location: United States, Colorado

At St. Vrain, a public school in Boulder County, Colorado's district, students work on projects for IBM and about 100 other industry partners, sometimes earning money and college credits in the process. Educators from across the country are flocking to the school to understand how its STEM curriculum and innovative partnerships are increasing the Latino graduation rate and dramatically decreasing the number of suspensions districtwide.

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Teachers go to school on racial bias

Amadou Diallo

April 29, 2019 |

The Hechinger Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

At Cambridge Street Upper School, teachers, many of whom are white, meet regularly to discuss their own implicit biases and how they play out in a school in which 60 percent of students identify as black, Latino, or multiracial. "Cultural proficiency is no longer a separate thing we do once a month. It's at the center of what we do," the principal said.

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When counselors are in short supply, students step in to help

Noble Ingram

April 23, 2019 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States

Lacking sufficient counseling resources, schools are training students to fill the gap. The approach is not intended as a comprehensive solution, but as a way to help more students get connected with basic services.

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Boulder High's Adelante! program celebrating 25th anniversary

Amy Bounds

April 20, 2019 |

Boulder Daily Camera |

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Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

Twenty-five years ago, a Spanish teacher in Colorado noticed a troubling trend - many Latino students were dropping out before finishing high school. Leticia Alonso de Lozano started a dropout prevention program, offering students access to tutors, mentors, school supplies, and more. Now a quarter-century old, Adelante! has evolved beyond its original scope into a successful career and college readiness initiative.

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What happens when students are given a say in school budgets?

Caroline Preston

April 12, 2019 |

The Hechinger Report |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

This year, New York City's Department of Education introduced participatory budgeting in 48 public schools to bolster civics education and create a more transparent budgeting process. At Veritas Academy in Queens, students conducted research, consulted teachers, and prepared pitches in pursuit of the $2,000 of the annual budget available; in the end it was a close race between a greenhouse, multi-purpose studio, and filtered water fountain.

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‘‘You Got Your High School Diploma?''

Elizabeth Weil

March 27, 2019 |

The California Sunday Magazine |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Five Keys Charter School was the first in the U.S. to open in a jail. Now, the school operates a bus, or traveling classroom, that parks in San Francisco's most under-resourced communities to offer residents, many offenders, a second or third or seventh flexible chance at earning a high school diploma. Journalist Elizabeth Weil writes, "The school was created with the understanding that incarceration is part of life for their students." The director of the Bard Prison Initiative adds that Five Keys uses the infrastructure of jail “to do positive good rather than just mitigate harm.”

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