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What happened when schools used science to revamp how reading is taught

Katherine Long

December 01, 2019 |

The Seattle Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Danville, Pennsylvania

School districts in Pennsylvania are overhauling traditional reading curricula in favor of new neuroscience research that shows how the human brain processes sounds and symbols. The program is time-intensive, requiring teachers to learn a new way of teaching literacy, but has shown early promising results.

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Chasing Secrets

Jessianne Castle

December 01, 2019 |

Mountain Outlaw |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Montana

Scientists are working with houndsmen and houndswomen to track mountain lions in Montana to understand their behavior and to better estimate their population. By forming this partnership and using GPS collars, the team is learning about these animals’ habitat use and where they rest, hunt, and feed. Houndsmen and houndswomen have been crucial in the success of cougar conservation in the state.

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Fix It and They Will Come

Laurie Mazur

December 01, 2019 |

The Progressive |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Orange, New Jersey

Around the United States, small-town institutions are shuttering and communal ties are weakening, all less than positive signs for the fate of democracy. But in Orange, New Jersey, Mindy Fullilove and other congregants at the First Unitarian Universalist Church used a crowdfunding platform called ioby and asset-based community development to keep the doors of their church open and their community flourishing.

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One Bay Area organization found a radical and surprisingly simple approach to helping former prisoners start over

Marisa Endicott

December 01, 2019 |

Mother Jones |

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Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

The Homecoming Project pays homeowners to rent their spare bedrooms to people just released from long prison sentences, providing welcoming, free, stable housing option to people whose re-entry is often hamstrung by housing instability and grim, restrictive halfway houses. Only 12 formerly incarcerated people were served in the project’s first year, but the service providing its clients with six months of housing hopes to serve as a pilot for other organizations outside the Bay Area. All 12 have jobs and six have gone on to live independently.

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How to reduce suicides on the psychiatric ward

Soumya Karlamangla

December 01, 2019 |

Los Angeles Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, California

Implementing checklists to prevent suicide risks can reduce the number of deaths by suicide in psychiatric facilities. Since 2007, Veteran’s Affairs medical facilities across the country have successfully reduced the number of suicides in their facilities by taking measured steps to reduce risks. The checklist includes removing dangerous items from rooms and ensuring that patients are monitored by nursing staff. Increasing the data available has also led to new recommendations and standards.

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Chew On This: Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity

Allison Aubrey

November 30, 2019 |

NPR |

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3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

Food waste typically ends up on in landfills, which exacerbates climate change, but in Massachusetts, dairy farmers are converting the waste into electricity. Food waste from around the state is gathered, ground, and liquefied and then transported to an anaerobic digester on a dairy farm which is able to convert enough energy to power more than just the farm.

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Free tuition, $1,000 monthly stipend turn Tucson residents to teaching

Deagan Urbatsch

November 29, 2019 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

To help retain elementary school teachers, an Arizona school district teamed up with the University of Arizona. The program covers the cost of tuition for a student's teaching degree and pays students a monthly stipend.

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Project Search helps adults with disabilities find jobs

Roberta Baker

November 29, 2019 |

The Laconia Daily Sun |

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Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

A training and apprenticeship program provides the skills and experience needed by people living with disabilities to find employment. Project Search is a nationwide initiative that identifies the strength and aspirations of each participant - leading to long-term and satisfying career paths. Over the past nine years, the program has successfully found long-term roles for its graduates in several cities across New Hampshire.

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Can old fridges be recycled to make new ones?

Dougal Shaw

November 29, 2019 |

BBC |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United Kingdom, Telford

A recycling plant in Telford, England has found a way to recycle old refrigerators into new ones using a new technology that preserves the plastic without contamination from the refrigerator coolant. Usually, recycled refrigerator materials can only make simple products, like plant carriers; now, new technology can reduce the waste created from thrown-away fridges.

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Ending the age of AIDS: What the U.S. can learn from Namibia

Juhie Bhatia

November 29, 2019 |

The GroundTruth Project |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Namibia

In Namibia, a combination of data analysis and a community-centered approach are helping to reduce the rate of HIV infections and increase awareness around prevention methodologies. The approach has been so successful, that cities in the U.S., such as Atlanta, are considering how to implement similar strategies.

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