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  • Using schools to bring a dying Rust Belt city back to life

    June 26, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, East St. Louis, Illinois

    In East St. Louis, which is often known by outsiders for its 50 percent unemployment rate and status as the worst performing school district in the country, leaders are using a "collective impact" approach to improve test scores and social services. Officials and nonprofits have connected all community services "and use the school district, the entity that touches the lives of almost every kid in town, to help parents tap into that network." Longtime residents, who have seen many efforts flail over the years, offer mixed reviews of the newest initiative.

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  • Why Women From Asia Are Confronting U.S. Fracking: Oil Extraction Equals Plastic Production

    June 25, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Manila Bay in the Philippines is covered in trash - more specifically discarded plastic waste that has been exported from the United States. Facing an imminent risk of the Bay (which many local fishers depend on) disappearing, two organizations partnered together to create the “Stopping Plastic Where It Starts Tour." Targeting specifically U.S. communities experiencing the harmful impacts of fracking, the tour aims to reduce plastic consumption and production through awareness.

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  • Where Birth Control Is Scarce, Young Women Create Sex Education Outside the Classroom

    June 20, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    An internship program in rural Kentucky takes a bottom-up approach to reproductive health education. All Access EKY hires young female interns to create media and social media campaigns about teenage pregnancy and birth control. All Access Media Director Willa Johnson says, “We’re trying to build some of these bridges in our communities so it’s not just teenage girls on an island and health care providers on an island and educators on an island."

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  • Ending the infection that scrapes eyes blind

    June 20, 2018 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Ghana, Yendi

    Trachoma is a debilitating disease in which the eyelids turn inwards, causing a person's eyelashes to repeatedly scrape and eventually scar their eyes causing excruciating pain and blindness. The World Health Organization has come up with a four step solution to the problem; surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and environmental improvement.

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  • Solar Libre: Family Affair

    June 19, 2018 |

    Latino USA |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Puerto Rico

    Hurricane Maria left many properties and people in Puerto Rico completely devastated. One family decided to do what they could to begin the reconstruction process on their own by forming Solar Libre Puerto Rico - a volunteer organizing that brings emergency solar to the region.

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  • Youth prisons are standing empty, but are a huge opportunity

    June 19, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States

    Across the country municipalities are repurposing former juvenile detention centers as juvenile incarceration rates have declined and remaking them as places of healing. Each community is different in its approach, with some even knocking down the buildings to start anew, but the Urban Institute found that successful transitions had several core strategies in common, including seeking input from local community members and from those who had been incarcerated in the facilities.

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  • Young Nigerians choose to fight Boko Haram with books

    June 19, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Gathered in makeshift open-air learning spaces, teachers and students in Nigeria are resisting Boko Haram's reign of terror against education. “They don’t like education; they don’t want it,” one 19-year old student says. “So just by doing this, we are all fighting them." Working with UNICEF and other organizations, local educators are offering free education to students who have been forced to stay home for years.

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  • What We Can Learn From Ghana's Obsession With Preschool

    June 19, 2018 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Ghana, Accra

    When a group of preschool teachers in Ghana were taught about child-centered and open-ended learning as an alternative to a traditional rote memorization approach, they saw improvements in students' pre-literacy and pre-numeracy scores. The intervention served as a response to revelations of poor performance among early elementary school students. This despite the fact that 80 percent of 3 year olds in Accra, Ghana were enrolled in preschool. While some teachers have successfully rolled out the collaborative style in their classrooms, others have been met with significant cultural resistance.

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  • Rising up to open opportunities in the arts

    June 18, 2018 |

    The Bristol Cable |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, Bristol

    Breaking into the creative sector can be daunting. Rising Arts Agency increases access to mentorship, including by bringing young people of color to cultural institutions after hours. The program benefits everyone. The youth get to quiz the staff about career opportunities while the staff have an opportunity to learn how to better serve young people interested in the arts.

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  • Want to start a preschool at home? Wonderschool can help

    June 18, 2018 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    To address the lack of licensed child care centers, a San Francisco startup has helped to start 150 in-home care centers in the Bay area, LA, and New York. Wonderschool works closely with caregivers, providing consultation on the space and structure of the preschool and taking care of the administrative and marketing aspects of the business. "Two of the biggest costs to operate a child care program are real estate and administration,” CEO Chris Bennett says. “By using their own homes and Wonderschool’s administration software, directors are able to cut out those costs.”

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