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How an ambitious new program aims to fight poverty and help kids learn, one block at a time

Ann Schimke

December 02, 2015 |

Chalkbeat |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Arvada, Colorado

To mitigate the pernicious effects of poverty on student success, nonprofit 'Blocks of Hope' in Colorado aims to provide both educational and social services to students and their families, with the goal of leveling the playing field.

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A fight to keep students in class

Suzette Hackney

November 20, 2015 |

IndyStar (The Indianapolis Star) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis' Howe High School has joined the movement surfacing in America's public schools towards restorative justice. In 2015, in lieu of suspensions and expulsions, Howe's leadership formed a peer justice jury to help fighting students talk through their conflicts and anger. Just one year after the program's inception, the school's expulsion rate decreased 90 percent, saving over 600 hours of what otherwise would have been students' lost classroom time.

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In class, out of court: How one school district triumphed over truancy

John Higgins

November 19, 2015 |

The Seattle Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Spokane, Washington

Traditional truancy punishments have done little to keep kids in school. One school in Washington state created a truancy board to investigate the reasons behind every student's chronic absences, and to make appropriate adjustments to meet his or her needs.

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Veterans, gang members find peace in unexpected 'brotherhood'

Nissa Rhee

November 11, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

The anti-violence program at a YMCA in Chicago has war veterans mentoring young gang members as a treatment for the mental and physical wounds of violence. The gang members have healthy role models and the veterans a new sense of purpose.

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Stopping Absenteeism at the Age of 5

Rikha Sharma Rani

October 16, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New Britain, Connecticut

Missing days at school, even when excusable, starts children on a pattern of falling behind. A new U.S. department of education initiative has districts tracking all absences, even in kindergarten, to identify and help kids with chronic absenteeism sooner.

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Higher Ed's Moneyball?

Eric Westervelt

October 14, 2015 |

NPR |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Orlando, Florida

A Florida community college is boosting learning and graduation rates with new technology that gets professors access to real-time data on student engagement and performance.

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A plan to give 5,000 dropouts a second chance

Ben Stocking

October 06, 2015 |

The Seattle Times |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Thanks to new private and public funding, school completion programs in Seattle, which enable distressed youth to achieve high school equivalency degrees, can now expand.

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How L.A. Gets Kids to Show Up at School

Mary B. Pasciak

September 27, 2015 |

The Buffalo News |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Schools in Los Angeles have strict consequences for truancy and tardiness but offer rewards and recognition for good attendance. Administrators use iPhones to record the ID numbers of tardy students, tracking them in order to engage the appropriate intervention.

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Lessons from under the coconut tree

James Vaznis

September 12, 2015 |

The Boston Globe |

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Response Location: Haiti, Nippes

Boston professors visit countries and homes of foreign students to better understand their culture and gain insights about how to better teach them. The goal is to reach across cultural divides to help a big part of the student population — emigres from faraway lands — that is plagued with low standardized test scores and high dropout rates. Accompanying photojournalism: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2015/09/12/seeking-cultural-connections/L3mIQAQM3v9YT9A2K4JliL/story.html

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Preventing Crime for Pennies on the Dollar

Stephen J. Dubner

September 10, 2015 |

Freakonomics |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Researchers set out to measure the efficacy of a program called Becoming a Man, which seems to be proving that, for all the billions of dollars spent on complicated anti-crime programs, something as simple and cheap as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy seems more effective in reducing crime (and, not unrelated, keeping teenagers in school).

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