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  • In a global economy, Mass. lags in teaching foreign languages

    April 04, 2016 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Park City, Utah

    In a global economy, helping students succeed means offering them the opportunity to become multilingual. States such as Utah, Indiana, and Delaware have stepped up their efforts with immersion programs for elementary students.

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  • MATC program helps children of incarcerated parents graduate

    April 04, 2016 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    The Right Path program aims to help break the cycle of poverty and criminality. It covers tuition and course materials for students as well as providing stipends.

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  • Fenway High ‘test kitchen' cooking up districtwide menu changes

    April 04, 2016 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    A test kitchen set up at Fenway High School this year to try out new lunch items is slowly transforming cuisine across the school system, as part of an effort to expand more healthful food options for students.

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  • New App Helps Undocumented Immigrants Find College Scholarships

    April 03, 2016 |

    KQED |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Many undocumented students are often encumbered when seeking prosperous avenues to college affordability and DREAMer’s Roadmap app is changing that. The app, founded by Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca—an undocumented immigrant—works to help connect other undocumented students with scholarship opportunities by letting students search through a free database of scholarships, and sending users alerts via text, email or social media when new scholarships are added to the system.

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  • Former Prisoners Find Redemption Running a Prosperous Business in San Francisco's Public Housing

    March 31, 2016 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Facing job discrimination after years in and out of prison, a San Francisco man founded a company that employs public housing residents, regardless of their parole status, to sort trash from recyclables and compostable items. It's saving the housing complexes money, diverting trash from the waste stream and providing meaningful employment for those who often can't get jobs in the formal economy.

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  • Dormitory expansion in Tanzania is slow but keeps girls in school

    March 29, 2016 |

    Global Sisters Report |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Morogoro

    Everyone knows how to stop the epidemic of teen pregnancies in Tanzania, where one out of every four babies is born to a woman under the age of 18. It is one thing that politicians, teachers, sisters, priests, imams, police officers and activists all agree on. And its success has been proven by plummeting teen pregnancy rates everywhere it has been implemented.

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  • The Cherokee Nation wants to reverse the ‘silent epidemic' of hepatitis C

    March 27, 2016 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Fort Gibson, Oklahoma

    An epidemic of Hepititis C has been effecting members of the Cherokee Nation at alarming rates, while consistently going unnoticed. Establishing screening systems with free care for members, the Hep C Elimination Project has been tackling this issue.

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  • Minnesota program embeds therapists in schools

    March 22, 2016 |

    The Post Crescent |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    In the early 2000s, Minnesota’s low income families struggled to have access to mental health care for their children. Now Minnesota therapists meet at schools rather than at a clinic and also train teachers to help students with mental health challenges. Parents measure the success based upon improved test scores, classroom environment, and fewer school suspensions.

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  • The Evolving Fight Against Concentrated Poverty

    March 18, 2016 |

    TalkPoverty.org |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    The disappearance of good manufacturing jobs, increased concentration of wealth, and political gridlock makes it increasingly hard for cities to address poverty. A Georgetown law professor reports back on four inventive programs addressing poverty in four cities: Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New Haven.

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  • This Is How You End the Foster Care to Prison Pipeline

    March 16, 2016 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Oakland's First Place for Youth provides housing for recently emancipated foster children, giving them the boost they need to avoid the foster care-to-prison pipeline.

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