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  • Liberia, Desperate to Educate, Turns to Charter Schools

    June 14, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Liberia

    In Liberia, a failing educational infrastructure is finding potential solutions through charter school partnerships. Through Partnership Schools for Liberia, these new schools present a unique model for increasing positive educational outcomes.

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  • Houston's solution to the homeless crisis: Housing — and lots of it

    June 13, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The second part in a series of stories about Seattle's response to their homeless crisis. Here, officials look to the example of Houston to create housing options for homeless veterans and former convicts.

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  • Helinski: A Very Smart City

    June 13, 2016 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Finland, Helinski

    Helinski's 'Smart Kalasatama' neighborhood is being planned by city officials, and supported by private investors, to be a vision for the future. Resource efficiency, technology start-ups and modern public transport all come together to what is hoped to be a truly modern part of the city.

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  • Do gun control debates ever change anything? In these countries they did.

    June 13, 2016 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: United States

    Mass shootings in the United States spur calls for gun control regulation, but do gun control regulations work? In Australia, Scotland, and Finland, they have reduced gun-related crimes through buyback programs, banning civilians from owning guns, and raising the minimum age for owning guns.

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  • The 'internet of things' is narrowing the gap between data and action

    June 13, 2016 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: United States

    Expected to reach 25 billion connected devices by 2020, the emerging class of "internet of things" companies are starting to realize its potential to address global poverty by helping the international development community narrow the gap between data and action.

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  • Finding Health Care in the Desert

    June 13, 2016 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Ajo, Arizona

    In remote Ajo, Arizona, the Desert Senita Health Center acts as the region’s on-stop shop health clinic as well as the community's health advocate. From providing medical care to implementing tactics to break the community's involvement with abuse of drugs, alcohol and violence, the Senita Health Center relies on community support, federal funding and a host of outreach programs.

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  • A tale of two states: Wisconsin trails Colorado as both cut solitary confinement

    June 12, 2016 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Solitary confinement has long been shown to exacerbate mental health problems and is considered to be inhumane for long periods of time. Colorado is taking steps to reduce the amount of time prisoners spend in isolation, and Wisconsin is looking to do the same.

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  • Federal gun prosecutions fall, even as Milwaukee crime rises

    June 11, 2016 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    With shooting deaths soaring in Milwaukee, gun cases have swamped the county courts, but there has been no similar spike in federal firearm prosecutions. In fact, the opposite occurred last year.

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  • Seattle may try San Francisco's ‘radical hospitality' for homeless

    June 11, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco officials converted an abandoned school on the Mission’s skid row into a special kind of shelter with the means to take chronically homeless adults from the street and entire encampment communities, then navigate them into housing, without the traditional, degrading rules and regulations of other shelters. It’s become one of the most closely watched homeless-related projects in the country, and Seattle is one of the cities looking to potentially replicate their model to help address the homelessness crisis.

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  • How One School District Used Buses to Bring the Internet Home

    June 10, 2016 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Indio, California

    Many in the rural town of Indio, CA, didn't have access to the internet. Darryl Adams, superintendent of Coachella Valley schools, devised a frugal way to provide internet access to many of his district's poor neighborhoods - mobile, school bus-based WiFi hotspots.

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