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  • How are Special Needs Teens Being Prepared for Workforce?

    April 11, 2016 |

    KTVX-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Camp K in Utah provides job counseling and training for teens with special needs, helping them to bridge the gap between high school and the professional work force.

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  • Brazilian Doctor Crafts System Hailed As 'Way Forward' For Combating Zika

    April 10, 2016 |

    NPR |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Brazil, Paraiba

    Pediatric cardiologist Sandra Mattos had set up a network of doctors and hospitals working with tiny heart patients via telemedicine. Her system now also helps remote Zika sufferers.

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  • Risky change in teaching pays off at Bellevue's Sammamish High

    April 09, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    With help from a federal grant, a Bellevue high school asked its teachers to work with the University of Washington to redesign over 30 AP courses. An independent evaluation found that the move from traditional lecture test prep to "problem-based learning," or hands-on instruction, improved students' scores on AP tests.

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  • At this Paris restaurant, 'freegans' fight waste by cooking up food diverted from the dumpster

    April 08, 2016 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Researchers figure that roughly a third of all the food we produce is never eaten. In Paris, a new restaurant is taking a small slice out of all that waste by salvaging discarded food from a local market, cooking it up into fine cuisine, and serving it on a "pay-what-you-can" basis to a clientele that includes some of the city's neediest residents.

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  • Why Talented Black and Hispanic Students Can Go Undiscovered

    April 08, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

    Relying on teachers and parents to identify candidates for gifted programs appears to discriminate against minority and poor children - a new, more equal screening process reveals that more minority students are 'gifted' than previously categorized.

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  • Baltimore Sees Hospitals As Key To Breaking A Cycle Of Violence

    April 08, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    The city's health department wants to send ex-offenders who are trained to be "violence interrupters" to hospitals to talk with victims. Chicago has found such a program prevents repeat injuries.

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  • What It Looks Like When A University Truly Fixes How It Handles Sexual Assault

    April 07, 2016 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Oregon State University was being criticized for its handling of sexual assault cases, particularly Brenda Tracy's case that occurred in 1998. Now years later, the president of OSU- Ed Ray, has formally apologized, hired Tracy as a consultant, the Sexual Assault Resource Center has been created, and other steps that have led to a more prepared environment to help victims of sexual assault.

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  • UDC law students push for criminal justice reform

    April 07, 2016 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    The incarceration rate in the United States is one of the highest in the world, and it is paid for – heavily – by the tax payers. To combat this, students argue that more funding should go to supervised release instead of incarceration.

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  • When students lead parent-teacher conferences

    April 06, 2016 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsfield, New Hampshire

    'Student-centered learning' has taken on new life at one of the nation's lowest-performing high schools in the form of student-led parent-teacher conferences.

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  • Conjoined Twins, a Trip to Saudi Arabia and a Risky Operation

    April 06, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Saudi Arabia, Riyadh

    The government of Saudi Arabia pays for travel, accommodation and surgery for low-income patients from around the world in need of conjoined twin separation.

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