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  • Dogs help students beyond play

    May 09, 2018 |

    KMGH-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    In one Colorado classroom, the teacher's pet, a dog named Buster, is teaching students lessons about patience, responsibility, and confidence.

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  • Special delivery: Text messages bring courses to disconnected students

    May 09, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Yemen

    A group of college students has developed a text-message based entrepreneurship course designed for students in locations where "phones are common, but internet access is not," including in Yemen. The founders hope that their curriculum will help to close the persistent "social-capital gap" in business education.

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  • LACMA and Arizona State University Team Up for a New Grad Program Aimed at Diversifying Museum Leadership

    May 09, 2018 |

    Artnet |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Arizona State University have teamed up to provide graduate students with a scholarship, an opportunity to work at LACMA, and a salary for that work. Furthermore, the program is aimed at people of color and has a goal of helping to diversify the curatorial profession.

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  • Chau manicomios: Cómo Río Negro se convirtió en un modelo mundial con su programa de salud mental

    May 09, 2018 |

    Red/Acción |

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    Response Location: Argentina

    En la provincia argentina de Río Negro, en vez de ser institucionalizadas en establecimientos psiquiátricos, las personas afectadas con trastornos mentales se atienden en los hospitales generales, que cuentan con guardias de salud mental y profesionales capacitados en el tema. Este modelo se ha convertido en una referencia a nivel mundial, ya que representa una transición de un sistema basado en el encierro en hospitales psiquiátricos a otro basado en el paradigma de la salud mental comunitaria, en el que se crean diversos dispositivos para lograr que las personas puedan reinsertarse en la sociedad.

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  • Tiny Houses Alone Can't Solve the Housing Crisis. But Here's What Can

    May 08, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Buying a house with 8 other people, tiny houses, forming a homeowners association to buy land, and community land trust’s are all different options people are taking to find alternate forms of housing that are affordable. “They’ve defined a new American Dream. They hope others will follow their model, if not by making the same choice, then by being willing to look beyond traditional boundaries.”

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  • These Citywide Behavioral Science Experiments Are Paying Off

    May 08, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Ideas42, a nonprofit behavioral design firm, has advised cities such as New York and Chicago on creative ways to use behavioral design to improve the quality of city life. From helping students sign up for financial aid to decreasing traffic after a sporting event, these creative design tweaks are inexpensive and have clear benefits. If the cities can continue to improve their design successes, other cities will soon follow their lead.

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  • Cities are crowdfunding more. But is it fair to ask the people to pay?

    May 08, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, Brighton and Hove

    Governments in the United Kingdom, the United States, and elsewhere use crowdfunded donations to restore historic areas and fund new developments. The approach can build democratic participation and community cohesion while plugging budgetary holes from falling tax revenue.

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  • Fighting Street Gun Violence as if It Were a Contagion

    May 08, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Most tough guys with guns don’t want to shoot. Trained violence interrupters can therefore jump in and find alternative ways to mediate disputes. Hired from the same neighborhoods in which they work, violence interrupters and outreach workers form the backbone of Cure Violence, a neighborhood-level program that has gone global treating gun violence as a self-replicating disease.

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  • Algebra on Aisle Six: How a Disused Kmart Became a Bold New High School

    May 08, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Waukegan, Illinois

    When Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep, one of a national network of work-study high schools, was looking to move out of an outdated building, an abandoned big box KMart caught administrators' eyes. Strapped by a tight budget, the school creatively transformed the suburban eye sore into a colorful cross between a corporate headquarters and a college campus. Inspired by the school's success, other network schools are looking into vacant factories and grocery stores as new homes.

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  • The Connecticut Experiment

    May 08, 2018 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Connecticut

    A pilot program in Connecticut for young offenders matches them with older inmates as mentors who help them confront their pasts and the underlying reasons they’re in prison. They learn new life skills and personal money management as part of a growing trend to use neuroscience to inform incarceration of young adults. The program is based on prisons in Germany and two other states are setting up similar pilots, but no data is yet available on whether the approach reduces recidivism.

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