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  • Teaching in the time of coronavirus: Finding creative ways to engage students

    May 31, 2020 |

    San Diego Union-Tribune |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, California

    As teachers have shifted their classrooms to remote learning during the pandemic, the challenge of keeping students actively engaged and interested remains. For some teachers in California this included enhancing lessons by taking students on a virtual field trips, hosting online poetry slams and workshops featuring prominent local artists, and even meeting students at the "place" they seem to be frequenting the most, the popular visual social media platform TikTok.

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  • How this country of 97 million kept its coronavirus death toll at zero

    May 30, 2020 |

    CNN |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Vietnam

    Thanks to a speedy early containment effort, rigorous contact tracing and quarantine policies, and effective public communications, Vietnam suffered zero COVID-19 deaths through the first four-plus months of the crisis and a relatively low infection rate overall. The country’s success, notable especially in light of its modest economic and healthcare conditions, began with a strict three-week national lockdown. Since then, businesses and schools reopened, under social-distancing rules. Throughout, the country's elaborate propaganda network spread hygiene messages to a public accustomed to viral outbreaks.

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  • How COVID-19 and the fight against Big Oil is reviving one Alaskan people's spiritual traditions

    May 30, 2020 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    To the Gwich’in Athabascan people living inside the Arctic Circle in Alaska, the decades-long fight against oil drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) represents more than an environmental struggle: It has sparked a spiritual and cultural renaissance among indigenous people whose customs had been discouraged since colonial days. Young Gwich’in have worked to revive their language, self-sufficiency, and traditional arts and crafts. The COVID-19 pandemic has only deepened their commit to respond to threats to their way of life.

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  • Thousands of Complaints Do Little to Change Police Ways

    May 30, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Derek Chauvin's journey through the Minneapolis Police Department’s officer-disciplinary system illustrates the weaknesses of that system and the failure of efforts to fix it. Chauvin, the officer charged in the death of George Floyd, survived at least 17 misconduct complaints before he was fired for killing Floyd by kneeling on his neck. Critics charge the department never complied with recommendations by federal analysts to improve the tracking and disciplining of problem officers. That and other administrative failures are coupled with political and cultural barriers to neuter many reform ideas.

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  • 'Stopgap' or life saver?: Italy's scheme to help the self-employed survive the coronavirus crisis

    May 30, 2020 |

    The Local |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Italy

    The Italian government's attempt to assuage the financial fallout of the pandemic on small businesses, freelance workers, and the self-employed did not achieve the desired results despite the enormous size of the aid package: 25 billion euros. Delays, technical glitches, and language barriers for international workers have plagued the application process from the day it was launched and over half a million applications have yet to be processed. Italians also criticized the 600-euro amount which is the average rent in the country, often higher in some areas. The government has announced additional aid.

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  • How Kerala managed to flatten the coronavirus curve

    May 29, 2020 |

    Equal Times |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India, Kerala

    The local government in Kerala implemented swift and aggressive measures to contain the coronavirus, within three days of learning that China was experiencing an outbreak. The success of the state is largely due to the way the government functions under the "Kerala model," which is a culmination of "decades of progressive politics and an egalitarian development strategy." Although the curve has been flattened, there are still significant socio-economic ramifications that are posing a challenge to recovery.

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  • Covid et malades psy : le téléphone pour garder les pieds sur terre

    May 29, 2020 |

    Médiacités |

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    Response Location: France, Lille

    Pour empêcher de perdre de vue les patients suivis en centres médico-psychologiques lors du confinement, l’Établissement public de santé mentale de l’agglomération lilloise a eu recours en urgence à l’outil le plus simple qui soit : le téléphone. Une solution qui a montré un réel potentiel… et de sérieuses limites.

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  • With Abuse Victims Trapped at Home, Detroit Moves Restraining Order System Online

    May 29, 2020 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Domestic abuse risks are on the rise, at a time of social isolation, economic disruption, and gun-buying, and so Wayne County, Michigan, court officials responded to the closing of their courthouses by allowing people to seek orders of protection online. A replacement for an onerous, face-to-face process, the new e-filing system processed fewer applications in its first month than before the pandemic crisis, but at least preserved a steady flow of cases that enable victims to block their abusers from possessing guns. Victim advocates hope the new system expands access even after the courthouses reopen.

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  • Covid-19: The government officials only visit our shacks when they want our votes, not when we need food

    May 29, 2020 |

    #Kizola |

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    Response Location: South Africa

    South Africa took decisive steps to contain the spread of Covid-19, including closing borders, requiring strict social distancing, and making screening and testing available nationwide. The lock-down, however, made citizens who already lacked money, food, and access to clean water more insecure. Social services increased in some areas, but not enough to provide sufficient food and secure access to clean water to those who needed it. Some local organizations, such as the KASI Arts School & Rehabilitation Centre, shifted their operations to supply food to their local communities, but many remain in need.

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  • Volunteers Bring Coronavirus Testing To Dallas' Southern Sector: 'It's Our Civic And Moral Responsibility'

    May 28, 2020 |

    KTVT-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    To increase COVID-19 testing in one Dallas neighborhood, community leaders, healthcare professionals, and a local church have joined together to implement a testing site directly in the community. Offering 250 free tests per day, the makeshift clinic helps to address the need of community members who may not feel comfortable going to a medical institution that they do not trust.

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