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  • Communities band together to protect El Salvador's last mangroves

    May 23, 2017 |

    Mongabay |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: El Salvador

    Hurricane Mitch, deforestation, and flooding, were all factors that led to the decline of mangrove trees in El Salvador. The Mangrove Association, a coalition of 80 communities, is bringing the mangrove population back up.

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  • Research Says ‘Voucher' Programs Can Help Students

    May 23, 2017 |

    Flatland |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Kansas

    The Catholic Education Foundation in Kansas City has provided nearly $600,000 in scholarships to approximately 300 low-income students to give them the choice to choose where they want to go to school. Because it is funded by businesses through tax-deductible contributions, it is a contentious issue by involving public money. The program has found over time that although the difference in test scores between private and public schools is modest, the real benefit of the program is helping families make informed choices about their education without access being an issue.

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  • Oklahoma City-Based International Development NGO Focuses On Women

    May 23, 2017 |

    WMOT |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: India, Madhubani, Bihar

    In many rural villages in Northern India and Nepal, long-standing cultural norms have relegated women to subordinate positions in marriage and minimal educational opportunities, stifling the social, agricultural and economic development of entire communities. But with the NGO World Neighbors' work to increase female literacy and help initiate locally-controlled savings and credit groups, these areas' female residents have become a more empowered component of local development and progressive change.

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  • English learners: Struggling CT schools ignore a proven path

    May 22, 2017 |

    The Connecticut Mirror |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Dual language programs create a bifurcated school day with one half taught in English and the other half in a different language. Research has overwhelmingly shown that these programs, starting as early as kindergarten, helps close academic gaps between native and non-native English speakers as well as strengthen English skills and skills in their native language.

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  • How a Small Town Is Standing Up to Fracking

    May 22, 2017 |

    Rolling Stone |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Grant Township, Pennsylvania

    While the U.S. economy enjoys the cheap fuel prices afforded by fracking, the consequences on the environment and communities like Grant Township in Pennsylvania reveal the ugly underbelly of the oil and gas industry and the broken regulatory infrastructure of state and federal government. But Grant wasn't willing to roll over and just let their woodlands and water sources be polluted, so they worked together and took a creative defense against the installation of a toxic injection well in their town: by granting the trees, animals, and streams rights to protection and battling it out in court.

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  • How 3 Cities Are Using an App Designed to Help Them Collaborate

    May 22, 2017 |

    Next City |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Cities are often alone in trying to develop solutions to their problems. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago developed an app— "The Peer Cities Identification Tool"— that matches similar U.S. cities and encourages discussion about challenges and successes.

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  • Year Up matches urban youth to a hungry job market

    May 22, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    As urban youth struggle to get onto a career track, Year Up equips these young people with technical skills and professional support to help them enter the job market. The initiative has scaled nationally in the United States, and it has given hope to young people while also providing a valuable resource for employees looking to hire competent workers.

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  • Bringing the Dream of an Elite College to Rural Students

    May 21, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Recent college graduates are working as full-time college counselors in low-income, rural communities across the country. The program, College Advising Corps, aims to provide students with ready access to information about deadlines, school options, and financial aid forms. In one North Caroline school equipped with a young advisor, the college enrollment rate has increased by 10 percent over the course of two years and is projected to continue to rise.

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  • METCO and the desegregation of Boston public schools through the years

    May 21, 2017 |

    The Tufts Daily |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    As an alternative to Boston's mandatory busing crisis of the 1970s and 1980s, since 1996, students from Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts have participated in a voluntary integration program. Today, the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity transports over 3,000 students from racially imbalanced or isolated schools who opt-in to attend integrated public schools in the region. The program's challenges include extended commute times for children and the removal of high-performing peers from challenged school districts.

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  • Medical Waste in Cairo: Impact and Health Problems

    May 20, 2017 |

    Shorthand Social |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Egypt, Cairo

    Large amounts of mismanaged medical waste are a concern in Cairo, since they can cause a wide range of illnesses and negatively affect the environment. NGO's are working to direct waste to proper sites, provide medical treatment to infected individuals, and help educate the public.

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