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  • Getting Purple Sea Urchins Out Of California Waters

    September 04, 2018 |

    WBUR |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, California

    Purple sea urchins are taking over the coast of California, diminishing the supply of bull kelp and causing problems for the underwater ecosystem. Divers from a broad range of backgrounds are volunteering to remove a portion of the population in order to restore balance.

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  • Training teachers like doctors

    September 04, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    To combat the intense teacher turnover rate nationwide, the University of Michigan's School of Education is rolling out a new training program that models itself after residencies in the medical field. After graduating and completing apprenticeships, students will return to their assigned school for three more years to work under their mentors. Early results from similar programs suggest the approach offers previously unavailable support systems and improves teachers' chances of staying in the profession.

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  • Universal mental health screenings to be introduced in local middle schools

    August 31, 2018 |

    Kirkland Reporter |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington

    In response to a growing suicide rate, Washington State's King County school district is trying to take a proactive approach by incorporating a universal mental health screening through online surveys in seventh grade health classes.

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  • Farmers see promise and profit for agroforestry in southern Kenya

    August 31, 2018 |

    Mongabay |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Kerita

    Climate change coupled with an increasing human population is reducing the amount of land that Kenya farmers are able to use for profitable crops. To get the most out of what's left of the arid land, many are turning to agroforestry projects and are seeing results in the form of healthier land and increased profits.

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  • A little-known program has lifted 9th grade performance in virtually every type of school

    August 30, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) program sticks to a simple motto: “Same Students. Same Teachers. Better Results." With this low-key saying, BARR has transformed the performance of students at a wide range of schools - from low-income, low-performing schools to affluent institutions. The key to its success? To start, teachers gather periodically to share notes, concerns and plans about each individual ninth grader.

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  • These lessons from rural Africa could help eradicate poverty-related tropical diseases in the U.S. South

    August 30, 2018 |

    Southerly |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    In the 1980s, throughout African and Asian countries, a tropical disease known as guinea worm was being transmitted through contaminated stagnant water. Thanks to a combination of endeavors that included "education and intervention programs, funding for clean water access, and government-supported public health campaigns," the near eradication of this epidemic is now being used as a model for how to combat other diseases in various parts of the world.

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  • In a posh Bangkok neighbourhood, residents trade energy with blockchain

    August 28, 2018 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Thailand, Bangkok

    In Bangkok’s Sukhumvit neighborhood, solar panels generate renewable energy, which is traded using blockchain between an apartment building, a mall, a school, and a dental hospital. The pilot project demonstrates the potential of decentralized renewable energy systems.

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  • Sparking a Mini-Movement of Worker Cooperatives in Southeast L.A.

    August 28, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    COOP LA in Los Angeles is a commercial space featuring business commonly found across the city but with a distinct difference: they are all worker cooperatives. These cooperatives effectively create jobs and develop locally owned businesses as well as accomplish this without the neighborhood falling prey to gentrification.

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  • Locals Divided Between Diversion and Border Security

    August 26, 2018 |

    70 Million |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Pima County, Arizona, eased its jail overcrowding with reforms that reduced the jail population by 400 people. Its Community Collaborative put key players from the criminal justice system, plus formerly incarcerated people, on a team that created programs to divert cases from incarceration to treatment, screen people to detain fewer people before trial, and a new court to reduce the problems working people had in making court dates. A new jail was no longer needed. But a federal border program that gave the county incentives to make needless arrests undercut some of those reforms.

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  • Students are dropping out of college before even starting. Here's how educators are trying to stop the trend.

    August 25, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    A Harvard study found that, in Boston, 10 to 20 percent of college-bound high school graduates weren't actually ending up enrolling in college. Researchers think they might have found a partial solution to what is known as the "melt trend" - in this approach, mentors send text messages throughout the summer reminding students of upcoming financial aid and registration deadlines and offering general encouragement.

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