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  • Out of sight, out of mind: Teachers take action on phones

    January 23, 2020 |

    Lake Oswego Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    When students enter many of their classrooms in Oregon, they are asked to place their phone in a pouch, locker, or other container. The strategy is helping students stay focused and break distracting habits and returning key instruction time to teachers who were spending time policing phone use.

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  • Kensington coffee club helps veterans connect, alleviates loneliness

    January 23, 2020 |

    Kensington Voice |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A veteran-run club in Kensington meets for coffee three times a week to re-establish social connections for ex-military in the community. The participating veterans, who often struggle with loneliness and lack of community after re-entering society, use the coffee hour as a time to talk about their experiences in the military and build friendships.

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  • There's a nationwide shortage of poll workers. Cities are relying on teens for help

    January 23, 2020 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States

    Many cities are turning to 16- and 17-year-olds to address poll worker shortages. Election officials say the students are also more tech savvy, racially and ethnically diverse, and enthusiastic. 400 students in Minneapolis, which has the highest turnout in midterm elections, made up 16% of all poll workers and were at 131 of its 132 polling places. Milwaukee has had less success recruiting students. In 2016, the last year they reported this data, students made up just 1% of poll workers. Structural barriers caused by high poverty rates and much lower compensation than other cities likely limit success.

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  • 2 Years Ago, Kenya Set The World's Strictest Plastic Bag Ban. Did It Work?

    January 23, 2020 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kikuyu

    In 2017, Kenya implemented a plastic bag ban and to ensure it was followed, set hefty fines and even jail time for those who broke the law. The law has had an impact – streets are cleaner and the use of single-use plastic bags has reduced, but there is still work to be done. The replacement bags, reusable ones made from polypropylene, have come under scrutiny for their lack of quality, and Kenyan residents cite confusion and fear as a result of not knowing which bags are allowed and which are not.

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  • The audacious effort to reforest the planet

    January 22, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Germany, Munich

    In an effort to get back to the roots of climate change, Plants for the Planet and other international initiatives plant millions of trees each year to help capture the massive amounts of carbon being released into the atmosphere. While tree-planting is only one piece in the larger fight to slow climate-change, it offers people around the world a low-cost and uncomplicated way to contribute.

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  • Making Yellow School Buses a Little More Green

    January 22, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Public school districts are gradually transitioning to electric buses. Electric utilities, concerned about environmental impacts and overloading the grid, are helping to cover the high price tag.

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  • Using Trauma-Informed Design, Buildings Become Tools for Recovery

    January 22, 2020 |

    Colorado Trust |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    In Denver, Colorado, one homeless shelter is using trauma-informed design to make residents feel more at home and less likely to sleep outside. Architects building Sanderson Apartments considered past traumas when choosing the layout, colors, furniture, and building materials. As a result, the physical environment is helping with the recovery process.

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  • The answer to America's health care cost problem might be in Maryland

    January 22, 2020 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    Maryland's health care system is based on three pillars – all-payer rate setting, a global budget, and total cost of care – that, together, have shown positive results both for the patients and for the state's hospitals. Although evidence of success with regard to health care costs is limited, the model of incentiving investment in community health and preventive care has shown success in reducing readmission rates for hospitals across the state.

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  • Project Oklahoma: New activity-based learning program helping elementary students

    January 21, 2020 |

    KTUL-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    What if kids were allowed to bounce on yoga balls or draw while they were learning to read? Some teachers and researchers in Oklahoma believe "action-based learning" can help students with behavioral challenges.

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  • Meet ‘Firefighter' in Middle of New York Hospital's War Against Gun Violence

    January 21, 2020 |

    Juvenile Justice Information Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Guns Down Life Up intervenes immediately after incidents of gun violence to prevent retaliation, but then goes further to counsel at-risk youth and to provide victim counseling to help families in the wake of violence. Part of a growing movement of hospital-based violence intervention, the group’s “credible messengers” work in Harlem and South Bronx hospitals to interrupt the cycles of violence that often result in repeat victimization, which anecdotally at least it can show has worked. Then its counseling gives youth safe activities off the streets and teaches better conflict mediation tactics.

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