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  • Germany is the first European country to free Syrian refugees from a draconian bureaucratic “trap”

    August 26, 2015 |

    Quartz |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Germany

    Since 2003, the Dublin Protocol has stopped migrants from traveling through Europe to auspicious countries before claiming asylum. However, many migrants travel by sea—which is more perilous and has led to high rates of death. Germany is the first country European country to break from the Dublin Protocol by letting in Syrian refugees.

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  • How to Save a Sinking Coast? Katrina Created a Laboratory

    August 07, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, Louisiana and federal officials launched an audacious $50 billion master plan to rebuild the receding coast in an effort to mitigate the effects future storms. These are expensive and massive in scale, and although success is not guaranteed, they're attracting interest from cities around the U.S., and low-lying countries like Bangladesh and the Netherlands. Moving beyond engineered “solutions” of the past, many of these efforts focus on rebuilding land through methods that mimic natural processes for building land mass and vegetation.

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  • Eliminating Bail for Nonviolent Crimes

    August 05, 2015 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Philadelphia's criminal justice system is overwhelmed. New York is allowing judges to release low-risk defendants accused of non-violent crimes with the goal of saving money, reducing prison overcrowding, and cutting down on prison violence.

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  • Oakland probation camp offers Freedom School to young detainees

    August 05, 2015 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, San Leandro, California

    Freedom Summer Camp allows for convicted young men to find a sense of community allowing them to connect to the world and fuel greater desires for achievement.

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  • A Library of Good Ideas

    August 02, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Bend, Oregon

    Staff members at a library branch in central Oregon take steps toward community engagement and participation by crossing the barrier from employee to neighbor. By building personal relationships with other community members, offering "maker" spaces and other public engagement opportunities, and listening to the desires of the community they are serving, the 6-branch Deschutes Libraries make a name for themselves.

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  • The Problem We All Live With

    July 31, 2015 |

    This American Life |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    At the height of desegregation, the achievement gap between white and black students decreased to 18 percent, compared to 49 percent. Evidence suggests integrating schools works, because it gives students of color access to the same resources as white students. Yet, schools remain largely segregated along class and racial lines. In Missouri, after Normandy School District in Normandy lost its accreditation, black students were given an opportunity to transfer into the much more affluent, and mostly white school district, Frances Howell. This episode shows the challenges of integrating schools.

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  • Under the Knife

    July 27, 2015 |

    Foreign Affairs |

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    Response Location: Iraq

    After pressure from activists, a slew of countries have passed laws that ban female genital mutilation, the practice of cutting of a girl’s external genitalia. However, in some places like the Iraqi Kurdistan region, the law was not enforced and was met with stiff opposition from religious leaders. “When it comes to FGM and child marriage, you’re changing perceptions so it takes a while, and these practices have been going on for generation after generation so it takes time to end them.”

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  • Elsa's Story

    July 17, 2015 |

    The Denver Post |

    Video |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    Children across the U.S. experience gender confusion, causing emotional stress in themselves and their family. Gender identity counselors and gender youth clinics are being created in multiple states to help families find peace in their situation.

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  • D.C.'s Education in School Reform

    July 16, 2015 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    The ecosystem of D.C. charter schools that has evolved over the last two decades represents a cornucopia of creative and nontraditional approaches to education, in addition to fairly traditional college-prep schools, and is now producing some of the highest graduation rates, college acceptance rates, and average test scores in public schools in the nation.

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  • Do no harm: Some hospitals let a preventable infection kill their patients

    July 09, 2015 |

    Vox |

    Documentary |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Roseville, California

    Central line infections can be a death sentence to a patient, so hospitals have been trying to determine how to reduce this likelihood. The solution appears to be in the difference between hospitals willing to learn from failures compared to those that continue to use standard practices.

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