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  • Highland Students Find Guidance, Resilience In Chicano Studies

    June 13, 2018 |

    KUNM |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    In 2014, Tucson schools found that performance and graduation rates improved dramatically when students completed classes in Mexican-American studies - the achievement gap closed within a matter of a few years. Now, a teacher in New Mexico is trying to replicate Arizona's success with a Chicano Studies class that takes students' through history and the reality of racism in their own lives.

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  • UW program helps disadvantaged students thrive in tough engineering college

    June 13, 2018 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington

    The University of Washington State Academic Red Shirt program provides enrolled students with an extra year of prerequisite instruction in an attempt to prepare them to pursue an engineering degree. Five years in, the model, which mirrors the academic "red shirt" concept, has shown promising results, enabling students from lower-performing high schools to catch up before formally embarking on the path to an engineering degree.

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  • How a Low-Tech Solution Helped Anchorage, Alaska's Gardeners

    June 13, 2018 |

    Slate |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

    Starting small has had a big impact in Anchorage, Alaska as the city looks at low-tech composting solutions that could alleviate their growing landfill problem. By revisiting a once-failed attempt to encourage composting, the local government found a way to not only build trust with the community, but also increase sustainability and resiliency efforts city-wide.

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  • Making business democratic: The Cooperation Group gives Detroiters avenues for collective ownership

    June 12, 2018 |

    Model D |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    The Cooperation Group is a Detroit-based nonprofit that consults for worker-owned cooperatives. They also give advice to organizations even if they think a cooperative is not the best model, as they did with the nonprofit Soulardarity. Either way, they want what is best for the business and the people who work there. The Cooperation Group has mobilized a lot of support in Detroit for cooperatives, including foundations and local government.

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  • A Worldwide Teaching Program to Stop Rape

    June 12, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    A program that trains girls and young women how to defend themselves against rape has proven highly effective in Kenya and is spreading to other countries, including Canada and the U.S. No Means No Worldwide trains girls how to identify risk and escape, and also to stand up for themselves verbally and physically, countering the socialization they get to be accommodating and nice. It also trains boys to respect girls and to intervene when girls or women are in danger and participants were able to stop assaults most of the time.

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  • What the US can learn from Switzerland's successful approach to vocational education

    June 12, 2018 |

    Quartz |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Switzerland

    In Switzerland, 30 percent of companies host high school age children for paid apprenticeships. These same companies are involved in setting the national standards for skills required for specific professions. This statistic illustrates the embedded nature of dual vocational and educational training programs in Swiss economic culture: "Apprenticeships and vocational education programs train both welders and lawyers alike." In light of Betsy Devos' recent trip to Switzerland, Quartz asks what barriers exist in the United States that would prevent schools from adopting the same approach.

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  • This Philly housing project helps residents double their income

    June 12, 2018 |

    Billy Penn |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    By offering flexible rent, a Philadelphia nonprofit allows low-income residents to attain economic success. Financed through an initial endowment, the Women’s Community Revitalization Projected is sustained by support from independent donations and Philadelphia’s low-income housing tax credits. In addition to offering affordable housing and residents’ services to Philadelphia’s low-income women and families, the WCRP also operates a community land trust to help address future development concerns in the city.

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  • 'We no longer die in childbirth': how Indian villages saved their mothers

    June 12, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: India, Purabgaon, Uttar Pradesh

    Villages in India were recording record high rates for maternal mortality due to a combination of factors such has poor diets and lack of education, but a women's group has started a grassroots approach to mitigating this. Known as Save a Mother, this group "aims to educate rural women about pregnancy, nutrition, immunization, delivery and care of the child," and has already seen a significant decrease in the mortality rate throughout villages.

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  • LA Is Doing Water Better Than Your City. Yes, That LA

    June 12, 2018 |

    Wired |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    With climate change on the horizon, Los Angeles is rushing to pull water from surprising sources. The goal: aqueous independence.

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  • The Disaster Response Program That's Building More Than Homes

    June 12, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, El Segundo, California

    Combining veterans and disaster relief efforts has proven itself to be a successful method for bridging the gap between pre and post service life. Although not entirely made up of veterans, Team Rubicon aims to utilize the skills of service members to help cleanup areas that have been hit by disasters such as tornadoes and earthquakes.

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