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  • NMSU works to recruit, train needed bilingual teachers

    May 02, 2019 |

    New Mexico In Depth |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Although many students in New Mexico enter kindergarten speaking two languages, a lack of bilingual and dual language classrooms means students often have trouble maintaining their Spanish or that English Language Learners don't receive appropriate instruction. New Mexico State University and Las Cruces Public Schools are working to break this cycle and recruit and train more bilingual teachers by offering degree programs and incentives and extra resources to teachers who choose this path.

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  • Probiotics help humans stay healthy. Can they benefit other animals, too?

    May 02, 2019 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    Across the world, research is being done to figure out if probiotics – live bacteria that hold numerous health benefits – can help animals other than humans. Thus far, such treatments have yielded success in labs working with amphibians, brown bats, and coral, demonstrating that humans can help treat wildlife diseases. While the research continues to show success, many are now figuring out how to give this sort of treatment in nature and on much larger scales.

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  • State of decay: How Maine's dentists get help to practice in underserved areas

    May 02, 2019 |

    WGME-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Maine

    Rural areas of Maine were being underserved when it came to dental hygiene, so the state opened a dental college and a loan repayment program in order to increase the amount of industry professionals. Since opening, the amount of dentists serving these areas has increased and now the university is looking to scale even further by increasing the amount offered in the loan repayment program.

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  • These Indigenous Women Are Reclaiming Stolen Land in the Bay Area

    April 30, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The Sogorea Te Land Trust is an intertribal women-led organization that is working to reclaim ownership of land in the Bay Area that Ohlone people have lived on for centuries. They regained access to the land through a partnership with another local grassroots organization called Planting Justice, who will eventually hand over the land to Sogorea Te for free once it is fully paid off. Sogorea Te believes that the root of a lot of Indigenous problems is the dispossession of their land, so they hope to use this land to rebuild resiliency and a way of life for and with their people.

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  • From Ohio to Midcoast Maine: How clinic culture & primary care are key to doctor shortage

    April 30, 2019 |

    WGME-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Maine

    As more doctors move towards retirement than doctors entering the field, many states are facing the realities of an upcoming shortage. To combat this, Maine is trying to position primary care in rural areas as the backbone of medicine through partnerships that aim to keep doctors in the states.

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  • The Town That Extended ‘Smart Growth' to Its Water

    April 30, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Westminster, Colorado

    Haunted by a 1962 drought in the town of Westminster, Colorado, the city's planners now incorporate water data in their planning processes to ensure that they never face the same sourcing issues again. By breaking down the silos between its water management and planning departments, the town has figured out how to manage its finite water resources, even in the face of a ballooning population. Now, other towns are following suit.

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  • Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers

    April 27, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    In some schools in rural South Korea, grandchildren and grandparents learn side by side. In recent years, a declining birthrate in South Korea has led to empty seats in many elementary schools. Many elder women, who missed out on the chance at a full education themselves, are helping to fill the vacancies.

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  • San Francisco Had an Ambitious Plan to Tackle School Segregation. It Made It Worse.

    April 25, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco's choice-based enrollment process, once heralded as a solution to the city's segregated schools, is now called "a cautionary tale" by most local parents. The system gives preference to residents of neighborhoods with low test scores. Among other issues, such as incomplete transit options, this system fails to account for rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods where affluent residents are increasingly living in historically low test score zones.

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  • Lego releases Braille bricks to teach blind and visually impaired children

    April 24, 2019 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Denmark, Billund, Jutland

    The Lego Company has released a new product called Lego Braille Bricks that is designed for blind and visually impaired children to learn Braille in a playful way. The concept was originally proposed to them by two foundations for the blind (one is Danish and one is Brazilian), so Legos prototyped with them to come up with the final set of 250 bricks that feature the complete Braille alphabet, numbers from zero to nine, math symbols, and more. These bricks will improve education for children with vision impairments, and reactions to the product have already been glowing.

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  • The library of things: could borrowing everything from drills to disco balls cut waste and save money?

    April 24, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: England, Oxford

    From London to Vancouver, across the globe libraries of things are popping up to rent out common, but rare-to-use, household objects. Items include telescopes, lawn mowers, ice cream makers, power drills, you name it. These volunteer-led shops take reservations online and lease the items at no or low-cost to the user, all while strengthening the sharing economy and reducing waste.

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