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The Rescue

After her relatives’ escape from war-torn Ukraine, a fashion model guides them from Poland through Mexico and then to safety in Los Angeles

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Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Her mother’s prison term turned her life upside down, but now Jade Green is leading an organization that’s transforming the lives of young people who have been involved in the justice system — inside a former youth detention center converted into a place of education and triumph.

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School Policing: The Blurred Lines of Safety

The debate surrounding on-campus police has intensified against the backdrop of school shootings and the racial reckoning ignited by the George Floyd tragedy. But who supports this intervention – and who opposes it – may be surprising, and their opposing views underscore the tension that pulls at the fabric of diverse communities across the U.S.

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Students Need Safety to Learn

Students’ experience of physical and emotional safety is crucial to their ability to learn, understand abstract concepts and advance educationally, according to psychological and neuroscience research.

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Waiting for Rain

Climate chaos is at a crisis point in Honduras, where persistent drought in farm country has led to economic tragedy – and more U.S.-bound migrants.

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Fight The Power

Indigenous fishermen on Mexico’s Gulf coast want to put the country’s oil giant on trial for decades of sulfur pollution that’s choked streams and rivers that feed their families

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Whose Gold?

The journalists behind the story of Black landowners who played important – but erased – roles in California’s Gold Rush show how they re-examined a history we thought we knew.

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Recruited

A Venezuelan journalist shares her story of pivotal and poignant life moments after weighing whether to join the U.S. military

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Big Data at School

What if technology was steering your academic success? At one university, predictive analytics is helping more students of color reach graduation, but researchers raise alarm bells about possible pitfalls, and baked-in bias.

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