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  • As 50 States Prepare to Reimagine Education Policy, Four Are Able to Offer Guidance

    December 09, 2015 |

    Education Week |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    The Innovation Lab Network (ILN) is a made up of a network of states that work collaboratively to transform their respective school systems. The ILN seeks to make meaningful systems-level changes in state education systems and they have shared their insights in four short films and manage a website with resources. The solutions emphasize local engagement and authority, extreme patience, and a framework that places the strengths and passions of young people at the center.

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  • Malaria Deaths Dropped Below Half A Million In Past Year: WHO

    December 09, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Arusha, Arusha

    The number of people killed by malaria dropped below half a million in the past year, reflecting vast progress against the mosquito-borne disease in some of the previously hardest-hit areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Mosquito nets have proven widely successful.

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  • Latinos Live Longest Despite Poverty. Here's Their Secret

    December 08, 2015 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

    U.S. Hispanics who pass down a tradition of food, family, and healing are healthier. But as generations become more assimilated, many are adjusting to less healthy diets and habits.

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  • Microloans Don't Solve Poverty

    December 08, 2015 |

    FiveThirtyEight |

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    Response Location: Malawi

    The research on microfinance suggests that it might neither help nor hurt poor communities, although a major financing organization argues that the researchers employed the wrong approach to measuring impact.

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  • Building Greener Ships, to Keep the Sea From Rising

    December 08, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico, San Juan, San Juan

    With projections that global shipping could account for 16 percent of carbon emissions by 2050, experts are looking to natural gas and so-called "slow steaming" to limit energy consumption.

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  • The Formal World Economy Was Failing Women and Small Farmers. So This Guy Built a New One.

    December 08, 2015 |

    GOOD Magazine |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Cartagena

    The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership develops enterprises that foster sustainable economic development, focusing especially on empowering farmers and women.

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  • Decriminalizing Drugs: When Treatment Replaces Prison

    December 08, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Portugal, Lisbon

    Portugal has gone perhaps the farthest in decriminalizing drug use. It hasn't stopped drug usage, but it has reduced deaths, the spread of H.I.V., drug crime, and imprisonment.

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  • This One-Man NGO Is Saving Water One Drop at a Time

    December 08, 2015 |

    TakePart |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    The Drop Dead Foundation, founded and headed up by an 80-year-old man in Mumbai, India, is fighting water waste by fixing leaks, one home at a time. With the world's most precious resource going to waste, lower-income homes in India simply do not have the resources to pay for plumbing services. This is where the foundation steps in.

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  • CPR Survival Rates Can Differ Greatly by City

    December 07, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Improvements in CPR remain underused in practice, with many doctors giving up too soon. As a result, survival rates after cardiac arrest vary as much as 500 percent across the country.

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  • ‘Early college' offers chance to achieve in high school

    December 07, 2015 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Pharr, Texas

    A growing number of high schools across the U.S. offer free college courses to low-income students in an effort to help them make the transition from high school to college and afford the rising cost of a degree.

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