Van Meter’s Ross Tiedemann (center) coaches a team of Prairie High School ninth-graders Nov. 20 during a new project-based learning program called 3DE at the Prairie 9th Grade Center in ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with reporter Anya Kamenetz about an Arabic-language remote learning program called "Ahlan Simsim." It's a show by the Sesame Workshop, created for Syrian refugees.

He's one of nearly a dozen volunteers who take part in a program called LAUNCH. "We feel the term LAUNCH really describes what happens to these young adults when they're here.