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  • Africa's New Agents of Progress in Female Health: Traditional Male Chiefs

    June 13, 2013 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: Malawi, Ntcheu

    Some groups are making strides at ending child marriage and female genital mutilation, practices that are common and yet dangerous. They're doing so by reaching out to the men in charge.

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  • Out of India's Trash Heaps, More Than a Shred of Dignity

    June 12, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Pune, Maharashtra

    Throughout India, wastepickers – people who scour landfills for garbage they can sell to recyclers – live at the bottom of society. But the city of Pune did something radical: with the help of a collective, they did away with expensive garbage trucks, and now all household garbage is collected by wastepickers with pushcarts. Pune saves millions of dollars each year and recycles more – and the wastepickers have decent wages and social standing. The concept is now spreading globally.

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  • Transforming Schools Through Play

    May 21, 2013 |

    Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Playworks, a recess-based school program, provides public schools with coaches who facilitate games that teach students skills for conflict resolution and cooperation. In Oregon, elementary schools across the state are leveraging the play-time as another way to elevate student behavior through this program, emphasizing character development early on in children.

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  • The Destructive Influence of Imaginary Peers

    March 27, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, DeKalb, Illinois

    People grossly overestimate how much their peers are drinking, having unprotected sex and getting fat. Instead of exaggerating the problem, the best way to get people to take care of themselves is to bust that myth and tell them the truth: most people behave well.

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  • The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people

    February 25, 2013 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Norway, Oslo

    With Norway having the lowest re-offense rate in Europe, the Bastoy prison in Norway not only demonstrates the effectiveness of this new approach, but also receives criticism that they treat prisoners with too much luxury.

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  • The Benefits of Positive Parenting

    February 20, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, South Carolina

    Improving the way people parent might seem an impossible challenge, given the competing views about what constitutes good parenting - can we influence a behavior that is rooted in upbringing and culture, affected by stress, and occurs mainly in private? Triple P – Positive Parenting Program works to educate parents on how to improve their parenting skills.

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  • India's rice revolution

    February 16, 2013 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: India, Bihar

    The System of Root Intensification (SRI) method resulted in dramatically high yields from one Indian village. The system centers on a "less is more" approach and results in higher yields—without the use of GMOs. The idea has faced barriers in spreading, as scientists are wary of it, even as villagers embrace the empirically successful approach.

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  • The Complicated World of Higher Education for Troops and Veterans

    February 01, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Afghanistan, Kandahar, Kandahar Province

    More than one million service members, veterans and their families take college courses financed with federal tax dollars. Their experiences are more complicated than those of their fresh-faced civilian peers, leading entities to explore the most effective ways to ensure they graduate.

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  • The Power of Failure

    November 28, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Jose, California

    Nongovernmental groups – especially ones that depend on donations – hate to fail, and never make their failures public. But at new conferences, social activists share and learn from failure.

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  • The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur

    November 13, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    In a world divided into factions, social entrepreneurs are connecting people in new configurations and helping them work together more effectively because social entrepreneurs tend to pursue an end in a communal way.

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