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Eden Alonso-Rivera of Grandville, MI is the NPR Student Podcast Challenge 2024 high school winner for her podcast "A Relationship Behind Bars" about her father's incarceration.

'You're not alone:' A teen podcaster sends message to kids with incarcerated parents Eden Alonso-Rivera of Grandville, Mich. is the high school winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Her winning entry, "A Relationship Behind Bars," is about her father's incarceration.

When it comes to youth justice, New York has another opportunity to lead.

I oversaw education on Rikers Island. Here’s what I learned. Mistakes made at an early age don't need to define a young person’s life.

Old school buildings give new life to child care centers -
Unused public spaces are creating new slots for young kids and offering stability to providers and families

Communities in need of child care find new life in old school buildings Missoula, Montana, has a shortage of affordable child care. But, like a growing number of communities nationwide, Missoula is solving the problem by transforming an unused public space — a closed school — into child care centers. As the projects in Missoula and elsewhere proceed, new ways of doi...

Transforming braille education could help millions of visually impaired Americans

Transforming braille education could help millions of visually impaired Americans : Short Wave For blind and low vision adults, the ability to read braille can be life-changing. Braille literacy is directly linked to higher rates of academic success and better employment outcomes for them. But there's a problem. The U.S. is facing a national shortage of qualified braille teachers and there's....

Introducing new Ecological-Community Psychology graduate student and the newest member of the Community-AID Lab, Melody Zakarian!

Introducing New Graduate Student Melody Kay Zakarian | Department of Psychology | Michigan State University Education: I graduated from Truman State University in 2024 with a double major in psychology and music and a minor in statistics. 

Louisiana district shows special education inclusion gains after successful partnership

Louisiana district shows special education inclusion gains after successful partnership East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools and the PROGRESS Center partnership started with strengthening the IEP writing process.

LGBTQ youth group gives q***r students in Detroit crucial space to express their ‘True Colors’

‘True Colors’ youth group gives q***r students in Detroit the space to heal, and to be Some LGBTQ students in Detroit report a lack of support and safe spaces. One educator is working to change that with his youth group ‘True Colors.’