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  • Teachers use meditation apps in class to rewire kids' brains, improve performance

    September 30, 2018 |

    CNBC |

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    Response Location: United States

    Teachers are increasingly turning to meditation and mindfulness apps in their classrooms to address student anxiety and reduce fighting and behavioral disruptions. The co-founder of Calm, an app that partners with schools, explained, “I think a lot of education focuses on remembering facts or things that aren’t necessarily dealing with your own life skills or tools to deal with emotions … if we can teach the kids to meditate, that’s an amazing, actually world-changing opportunity.”

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  • World Bank backs efforts to clean up cooking fuels in Uganda

    September 30, 2018 |

    New Vision |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Clean cookstoves can reduce indoor air pollution, along with a host of other social and environmental benefits. However, uptake has been slow in countries such as Uganda because such stoves tend to be more expensive for families in the short-term.

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  • Voter ID tied to lower Wisconsin turnout; students, people of color, elderly most affected

    September 30, 2018 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    Voter ID laws may reduce voter turnout, enough to change election results. For example, according to a UW-Madison study, thousands of people in Dane and Milwaukee counties did not vote in the 2016 presidential election because of confusion over new voter ID requirements or a lack of proper identification. Meanwhile, voter fraud, the justification for such voter ID laws, has been found to be a largely overblown fear by a federal judge.

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  • The Hot New Musical Trend In Zanzibar Is From The '80s — The 1880s

    September 29, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Zanzibar

    Teaching folk arts and music helps to keep cultures alive. On the island of Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania, the Dhow Countries Music Academy teaches students “taarab,” a form of 19th century music that reflects the island’s role as a hub of trade across the Indian Ocean. The school is supported largely by philanthropic donations from institutions like Swiss Embassy in Tanzania, the Ford Foundation, and others.

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  • Beyond the Stigma: New generation rises to help in opioid fight

    September 29, 2018 |

    New Hampshire Union Leader |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    A growing number of people are entering the human services field in New Hampshire in response to the opioid crisis. Local colleges are responding to the demand by offering more courses and opportunities for budding social workers.

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  • What is the public health approach to violence — and does it work?

    September 28, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Public health approaches to violence, in which different sectors and agencies treat it as a contagious disease, has gained support across the world and has taken many forms. This approach relies on data collection to inform policy and devise services, as well as routine checks on the effectiveness of interventions and scaling the ones that work. While the public health approach to violence has saved costs and reduced police-recorded violence, there are ethical concerns about the widespread data gathering.

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  • The school beating the odds with music Audio icon

    September 28, 2018 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: England, Bradford, West Yorkshire

    An elementary school in Bradford, England has seen a direct correlation between embracing music as part of their curriculum and students' performance in English and Math. The school is in a low-income area with most of its students speaking English as a second language and was doing very poorly before they made the switch. The school is now in the top 10% of schools in England, and students say that school is now energetic and fun.

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  • Young, gifted - and ready to tackle the mental illness epidemic

    September 28, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    The Think Ahead program in England is training recent college graduates for careers public mental health with a two-year, working Master’s program. These new graduates may be half the age of the average social worker, but they’re filling an important gap—social workers are in short supply in England, but the number of detentions under the Mental Health Act is increasing. The program is now taking on its fourth cohort and looking to expand nationally.

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  • Peer-to-peer: How former addicts help guide others through recovery

    September 28, 2018 |

    The Montgomery Advertiser |

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    Response Location: United States, Montgomery, Alabama

    With a new program of certified “recovery support specialists,” Alabama residents have a peer to help them navigate the challenges of everyday life in recovery from substance use disorder. Research has found that peer support programs help people reduce the desire to relapse as well as reduce feelings of guilt and shame.

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  • This startup lets villagers create mini power grids for their neighbors

    September 28, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Shikarpur

    Solshare, a fast-growing startup in Bangladesh, created a system in which “neighbors can sell extra electricity to each other.” The number of home solar panels has been increasing since a 2014 government program put solar power as a priority on its agenda. Even though more and more people have power, up to 30% is estimated to be wasted. Solshare created a microgrid in which cabling connects people who want to buy and sell power.

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