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  • How One Small School District Embraces A Challenge For Computer Science Education

    April 12, 2018 |

    KRWG-PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Melrose, New Mexico

    In many states, schools are now required to offer computer science curriculum. But in New Mexico, particularly in rural towns, there are few resources in place to expose students to the growing field. In Melrose, a town of 700, the state's Supercomputing Challenge is an attempt to fill this gap. By participating in after school sessions and submitting their final work to the competition, teens who wouldn't otherwise learn these highly marketable skills may even receive related college scholarships.

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  • Reach Up: how a Jamaican early childhood intervention swept the world

    April 12, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: Jamaica, Kingston

    Play encourages early childhood development. Reach Up sends doctors and nurses to show mothers in poverty, who are often overburdened in trying to lessen other disadvantages for their children, how to play with their children. The success of this Reach Up has led many countries to scale the program, bringing its own unique challenges.

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  • Competition fosters computer skills in New Mexico schools

    April 12, 2018 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Melrose, New Mexico

    For over sixteen years Melrose Municipal Schools, a small rural school district which oversees the students of Melrose, New Mexico, sets aside funds for the Supercomputing Challenge, an annual science and engineering competition. Students from sixth to twelfth grade meet after school to learn about computer science. “Over 11,000 students have participated.” It has also led former students to find careers in computer science. An analysis “found that 100 employees out of around 10,000 were challenge alumni.”

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  • Poachers vs. Poop

    April 11, 2018 |

    The Revelator |

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    Response Location: South Africa

    After 15 years of collecting dung and DNA from elephants, conservation biologist Samuel Wasser and his team were able to create a map documenting nearly all of the African elephant populations. With this in place, the information can be used to help law enforcement identify poaching hotspots and arrest ivory traffickers. Now this same process is being applied to other endangered species.

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  • Life After ‘The Life': Putting Families Back Together After Children are Trafficked

    April 11, 2018 |

    The Chronicle of Social Change |

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    Response Location: United States, Davis, California

    A class designed by UC Davis researchers is helping parents of sex-trafficked kids and teens learn the skills necessary for successful reunification. The first class of its kind, it focuses on educating parents through trauma and giving them the tools they need to help both themselves and their children.

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  • Too few teachers? This Indianapolis school district is growing its own

    April 11, 2018 |

    Chalkbeat Indiana |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    A school district in Indianapolis may have found one potential solution to the persistent teacher retention and diversity issue. Non-licensed school staff members and aides can now enroll in 18 months of night classes to earn their full teaching credentials. Homegrown teacher programs in other states have proven more likely to attract non-white candidates to the profession than traditional training paths.

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  • These hospitals have become a home away from home in the Maasai's fight against TB

    April 11, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kajiado

    In order to properly treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis patients who belong to Kenyan nomadic tribes, small villages consisting of individual huts have been constructed to comfortably house people during treatment. Treatment regimens can last between six months and two years.

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  • How One Country Is Restoring Its Damaged Ocean

    April 11, 2018 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Belize, Belize City

    Belize, cited by Darwin as home to “the most remarkable reef in the West Indies," recently became the first country to issue a moratorium on all offshore oil exploration and drilling in order to protect the reef and the species that rely on it.

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  • These Colorado kids had trouble getting to preschool, so teachers drove the classroom to them

    April 11, 2018 |

    The Denver Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Thorton, Colorado

    A Colorado-based educational organization (Right on Learning) has expanded its services beyond tutoring to bring "preschool in a bus" to a mobile home park in the Denver area. Right on Learning hopes to eliminate the barriers and cost of travel for many young learners and by doing so to offer more children the opportunity to improve their social skills and start kindergarten on the same level as their peers.

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  • A Year Later, Fewer Deportations in Cities That Adopted “Welcoming” Policies

    April 11, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Fe, New Mexico

    In the state of New Mexico, policy makers, activists, religious leaders, and the community are all working hand in hand to make the state a safe harbor for undocumented immigrants. The state is refusing to cooperate with ICE and aside from California is one of the most friendly to immigrants. A community organizer says, “We wanted to push back against this narrative that ICE just gets to come in our communities and kidnap people from their homes.”

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