Chesterfield College has been awarded Learning and Skills Beacon Status for excellence in community-based education.
The Foundation funds advocacy and awareness raising projects as well as providing direct support for low-cost technologies, community-based education, and training and medical programs.
Alternative, community-based education is essential because the mainstream school system continues to fail to meet the needs of students and families of color and does not teach young people about the issues most relevant to their lives.
Between 1919 and 1924, the new population built a series of Talmud Torah schools, which emphasized community-based education.
Similarly, programs "in support of community-based primary and secondary education," not solely "secondary education," would also be eligible.
In a New York Times op-ed article on Monday, Natalie Hopkinson writes that school choice in her neighborhood in Washington has destroyed community-based education for working-class families.
Razia is the founder of Razia's Ray of Hope Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of women and children in Afghanistan through community-based education.
Its mission is to promote and provide community-based education and literacy programs, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
North Star: Self Directed Learning for Teens is a center for community-based education in Hadley, Massachusetts, founded in 1996.
The American Cancer Society's Man to Man program provides community-based education and support for men with prostate cancer.