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  • The Over-50s Turning to Teaching

    MaryLou Costa

    February 09, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Now Teach helps retrain older professionals for second careers in teaching, tapping candidates who might otherwise retire early to help fill staffing shortages in the education sector. The program has helped roughly 850 people earn a postgraduate certificate in education, and its trainees are more ethnically diverse than the national pool of teachers overall.

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  • Could a Ride-Sharing Network Help Get Chicago Students to School?

    Jewél Jackson

    January 23, 2024 |

    Illinois Answers Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    To help fill transportation gaps left by bus driver shortages, school districts are partnering with HopSkipDrive, a network that leverages vetted rideshare drivers to take students to and from classes and activities. The company is working with 600 school districts, nonprofits, and agencies across the country.

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  • Female Rangers ‘Don't Go All Alpha Like the Men' to Protect a Forest

    Muktita Suhartono

    November 27, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Damaran Baru

    A team of rangers primarily made up of women is protecting 620 acres of forest around their village in Damaran Baru, Indonesia. The rangers' main priority is having conversations with squatters to prevent them from clearing the trees to use the soil, but they also provide important ecological information to researchers and act as environmental stewards.

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  • Crowdsourced fact-checking fights misinformation in Taiwan

    Patricia Waldron

    November 21, 2023 |

    Cornell Chronicle |

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    Response Location: Taiwan

    Taiwanese fact-checking website Cofacts operates similarly to Wikipedia, allowing anyone to become an editor, respond to questions, and evaluate responses. A study comparing the platform to professional fact-checking sites found that the crowdsourced version typically responded to questions more quickly, included more information about local and regional issues, and was just as accurate.

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  • An effort to increase teen engagement in Gonzales is succeeding, and spreading to neighboring cities

    Celia Jiménez

    November 16, 2023 |

    Monterey County Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Gonzales, California

    The Gonzales Youth Council, which allows young people to advise local government on issues that affect them, has inspired other youth councils to sprout up in neighboring communities. Youth commissioners participate in a paid summer fellowship to learn about city and school district processes, and the council has made several recommendations that have gone on to become ordinances, including fines for adults who facilitate underage drinking.

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  • Counties use high school students as poll workers to shore up staff

    Whitney Downard

    October 31, 2023 |

    Indiana Capital Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Indiana

    Indiana’s Hoosier Hall Pass program allows 16- and 17-year-olds to miss a day of school to pitch in as poll workers, helping to fill staffing shortages while also giving youth an up-close-and-personal look at the election process. In 2020, about 4.3 percent of poll workers in the state were under the age of 18.

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  • The Unique School Program that Made a Difference in Gidan-Yaro

    Muritala Abdullahi

    October 26, 2023 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto

    To reach students who had stopped attending school, Nigeria set up “non-formal learning centers” in some states where children could attend lessons three days a week in both Hausa and English, giving them the foundational knowledge needed to reenter the public school system. Between 2016 and 2021, more than 31,000 children transitioned from non-formal learning centers to public primary schools.

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  • Portland Youth Exercise Power through Participatory Budgeting

    Rebecca Jacobson

    October 12, 2023 |

    Reed Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Through Youth Voice Youth Vote, nearly 800 young people in Portland took part in a participatory budgeting process to decide how to spend $500,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding. The winning projects, including a paid internship program, expanded access to menstrual products, and a job resource fair, are now in the process of being implemented.

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  • Omamas: Roma women fighting generational poverty in Slovakia

    Zuzana Límová

    September 21, 2023 |

    Ereb |

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    Response Location: Slovakia, Zborov

    Through the Omama program, Roma women provide individual lessons to Roma children under the age of six living in settlements and disadvantaged communities, where they may not have access to crucial early childhood education. The lessons, which focus on motor skills, cognitive development, and Slovak language proficiency, have benefited roughly 900 children so far.

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  • Greater Cleveland Congregations is reaching "depressed" voters

    Frank W. Lewis

    September 15, 2023 |

    Signal Cleveland |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Through the Better for Democracy campaign, which is organized by Greater Cleveland Congregations, neighborhood “captains” are tasked with contacting low-propensity voters in their area at least five times each with phone calls, door-knocking, texts, a printed voters’ guide, and a follow-up thank you call. This relational approach to organizing resulted in 56 percent of those who were contacted showing up to vote in 2022, as compared to a 30 percent turnout rate for the city as a whole.

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