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  • Diversity in the Classroom: How to Solve the Black Male Teacher Shortage

    January 21, 2015 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: United States, South Carolina

    America's teacher workforce is disproportionately white and female, with black males constituting only 2 percent of instructors. The Call Me MISTER initiative, based out of Clemson University, provides test prep, tuition assistance, academic counseling, and job placements to students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds - "The goal is to create life long career educators." Fifteen years after Call Me MISTER's founding, the number of black males teaching in South Carolina's public schools has doubled.

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  • New Orleans ends veteran homelessness

    January 20, 2015 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    New Orleans implemented an extraordinary 10-year plan that engaged unprecedented cross-sector collaboration between government, non-profit, and private entities to provide housing and housing services to the city's homeless veterans. The city's success in providing homes for every single veteran formerly on their streets motivated cities across the nation to tackle the crises using similar means, leading to a 1/3 decline veteran homelessness since 2010.

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  • Trailers as affordable housing: solution or bane to the poor?

    January 18, 2015 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Bath, Pennsylvania

    Many people who own a trailer home live in a corporate-owned community where the rent goes unregulated but it is too expensive to relocate the trailer. In New Hampshire many manufactured home communities are owned by resident co-ops.

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  • Green-Energy Inspiration Off the Coast of Denmark

    January 17, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Denmark, Samsø

    Mainers can learn how to implement green energy in change-resistant rural areas from a Denmark island. In Samsø, Danes rely on wind energy and burn hay. These solutions may be adapted for the windswept coast of Maine. To be effective, they need to appeal to the practicality of the switch.

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  • Fire Doors And Sprinklers Debut At Garment Factories In Bangladesh

    January 17, 2015 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

    After the deadliest garment factory disaster in history killed more than 1,100 Bangladeshi workers in 2013, two new international groups conducted inspections of more than 1,700 factories and imposed higher safety standards that the factories must meet to sell to international markets. More than 30 factories were closed as imminent risks. Far more common were problems requiring fixes ranging from simple to costly: upgraded electrical systems, mental fire doors, sprinkler systems, fire alarm systems, and other safety requirements that are gradually taking hold in the industry.

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  • For Better Crime Prevention, a Dose of Science

    January 16, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Crime is a result of many underlying social issues, but Crime Lab, a research organization with branches in New York and Chicago, is studying which simple solutions will have the most impact in their city. Cost-effective efforts such as tutoring combined with cognitive behavioral therapy have proven to be successful.

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  • Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics

    January 16, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States

    Essential oils contain some of the most potent anti-microbial compounds available. Only recently have scientists started pushing fr research to more deeply understand how they can be used to take the place of traditional antibiotics in medicine. The goal is to reduce antibiotics overuse and avoid creating antibiotic resistant "superbugs."

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  • When I Grow Up

    January 15, 2015 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    KidZania is a theme park in a dozen countries where kids engage in different types of work, ranging from working on a car assembly line to putting out fake fires with real water and examining a doll’s teeth as a dentist. They earn a paycheck, which they must pay taxes on, and then can spend the money they earn at stores within the park. Although the parks promote free markets and brand loyalty, owners have also worked with local governments to incorporate lessons that promote good citizenship and awareness of civic institutions, health and safety, environmental sustainability, and appreciation of diversity.

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  • Seniors Take Manhattan

    January 13, 2015 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Cities tend to be dangerous and difficult places to live for older residents. A private public partnership in New York is catering to seniors through small changes in the city such as para-transit options and seniors-only hours at public establishments.

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  • Charter school takeovers: As York schools near privatization, lessons from New Orleans and Michigan

    January 12, 2015 |

    PennLive |

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    Response Location: United States, York, Pennsylvania

    York schools are considering changing public schools into charter schools, following the example of New Orleans and Michigan, in order to help their crumbling school system. The privatization of these schools can help the facilities become more financially stable, in turn preventing school closures and instability for their students.

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