Infrastructure inadequacies, scarce resources, and overcrowding are defining characteristics of countless schools that serve learners across South Africa. In response to these challenges, in 2010, Equal Education, a South African movement of learners demanding quality and equality in education, launched […]
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Fighting the School to Prison Pipeline: A Miami Community Learns from its Youth
NMAP partnered with the Advancement Project and its local grassroots partner in Miami, Power U, to use the voices of youth to challenge the school to prison pipeline in Miami. Miami’s schools had been cracking down hard on youth in […]
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Fighting the School to Prison Pipeline: Restorative Justice in Denver
NMAP partnered with the Advancement Project and its local grassroots partner in Denver, Padres & Jóvenes Unidos, to use the voices of youth to challenge the school to prison pipeline in Colorado. After Columbine, the State of Colorado cracked down […]
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The Fight Against Child Marriage: Education is Our Future
NMAP worked with two northern Nigerian women’s human rights groups, Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) and Isa Wali Empowerment Initiative (IWEI), and their partners to produce three videos that take new approaches in the fight against child marriage. […]
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Combating For-Profit College Fraud
In 2015, the for-profit college chain Corinthian College Inc filed for bankruptcy and closed most of their Southern California campuses—leaving students stuck with enormous debt and worthless degrees. Few of these students had been able to secure jobs in their […]
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