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News

June 19, 2020

Our Students’ Voices Echo Street Protests

For the young people who work with One World, the unaddressed police brutality and stark inequality fueling this week’s protests across the nation has been a daily reality for most of their young lives. It’s startling to go back in our library of student writing to see they have indeed been telling us this for a […]

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Events

May 14, 2020

The Winners are… the City and its Students

We are absolutely thrilled with a public outpouring of more than 3,000 votes!! Our students know that their voices have been heard. Thank you! Public Vote Winners Traditionally-Judged Winners Middle School Video High School Video   Middle School Essay   High School Essay

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News

March 12, 2020

One World Challenge COVID-19 Update

Dear One World Community, Nothing is more important than the safety of our students. Like everyone else, we are following the developing COVID-19 situation carefully. In the best interest of our community, we have decided not to hold the One World Challenge on March 31st. We are closely monitoring developments and will be back in […]

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Blogs

September 4, 2019

Banneker, One World, and Me

I was standing in front of my fellow Banneker students and DC council members, demanding we get the new high school we’d been promised. I wanted the city to recognize us. We were high-performing students. None of us were rich. Still, we had been achieving excellence every day in an old, beat-up building. It did […]

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Videos

April 15, 2019

One World 2019 Highlight Video

This video highlights One World’s Student Ambassadors as they present their work to community leaders at the Ambassador Challenge in March 2019. Students share their opinions on a wide range of social justice issues that matter to them. They also support their opinions with hard evidence. The video captures how deeply the program engages young people and […]

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Videos

May 2, 2018

Empowering Student Voices

When we give young people the right opportunities, they surprise us with what they are able to do. We have seen this again and again. One World Education is privileged to work with young people who face too many challenges at too young an age but who overcome these challenges with grace and determination. We […]

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