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  • As Its Neediest Schools Struggle, What Can PA Learn From Ontario's Success?

    December 30, 2016 |

    Keystone Crossroads |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    Part 5 of the "Equity or Bust: Are Ontario's Public Schools a Model for Pennsylvania" Series: Ontario is widely lauded for its education system, thanks to more rigorous teacher preparation, universal pre-K, and a deeply rooted commitment to prioritizing the neediest students. Meanwhile, districts like that of Kenderton, Pennsylvania are floundering in a broken system that leaves many kids - especially minorities - behind. What can they learn from Ontario's model?

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  • Teaching parents how to teach their toddlers: Seattle-area program yields lasting benefits

    December 21, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The Parent-Child Home Program in the Seattle area is helping close the achievement gap in poor and at-risk families by giving 2 and 3 year-olds a jump start in early education. By pairing parents with a trained educator, the program is helping children in low-income and immigrant families perform on par with their white and wealthier peers years later, improving graduation rates and potentially even salary and healthy lifestyles in the long term.

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  • N.J. will eliminate cash bail, speed up criminal trials in 2017

    December 21, 2016 |

    WHYY |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    New Jersey has eliminated cash bail and will instead make a determination, driven in part by computer algorithms, on whether someone is likely to commit another crime or not show up for their court date. This eliminates a system where more than a third of people awaiting trial were behind bars only because they could not afford bail. If a judge does decide to hold someone in jail, another reform kicks in assuring a speedy trial by setting required deadlines for cases to be heard.

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  • Free Cash in Finland. Must be Jobless.

    December 17, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Finland, Oulu

    Monthly unemployment checks are dissuading individuals from finding work for fear that their work will pay less. Oulu, Finland is testing out 'basic income' where everyone receives a government cheque, to encourage people to work without fear of losing their monthly assistance.

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  • How Ontario's vision of equity for schools contrasts starkly with Pennsylvania's

    December 13, 2016 |

    Keystone Crossroads |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    Part 1 of the "Equity or Bust: Are Ontario's Public Schools a Model for Pennsylvania" Series: Ontario has become widely lauded for its education system, celebrated for both high performance and relatively smaller achievement gaps between wealthy and poor students, thanks to the concept of "equity." This manifests, in essence, as more funding per-pupil to the school boards that serve students who face the greatest obstacles. The model contrasts starkly to the school system in Pennsylvania, regarded as "the most inequitable in the nation.”

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  • The Making of Telluride's Strict Short-Term Regulations

    December 09, 2016 |

    KBUT Community Radio |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Telluride, Colorado

    Late-night disturbances. Unfamiliar cars. As short-term rentals became common in Telluride, nuisance concerns rose too. In response, the town council passed an ordinance, defining short-term rentals as stays of less than 30 days and instating strict zoning and licensing requirements on rental businesses. Five years later, the policy remains effective and popular.

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  • Can Mezcal Survive Being Popular?

    December 07, 2016 |

    Roads & Kingdoms |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Mexico, San Juan Del Rio, Queretaro

    The production of mezcal keeps increasing, drawing the attention of big liquor brands who want to invest in the mezcal market. Entrepreneurs in Mexico, are teaming up with rural farmers, their collaboration could potentially push out big companies from taking over the market.

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  • This Kansas farmer fought a government program to keep his farm sustainable

    December 05, 2016 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas

    Regenerative farming practices such as cover crops can be environmentally friendly and financially profitable. But federal crop insurance rules and certain characteristics of the agriculture industry have prevented farmers from employing these techniques fully. However, one farmer, Gail Fuller, has been working to broaden access to such techniques.

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  • Nature Might Hold the Secret to Healing Police-Community Relations

    December 05, 2016 |

    Outside |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    After charged discussions and protests around racial injustice within police departments, Baltimore set out to find a solution to bridge the divide created between the city's police force and the kids that lived in stereotyped neighborhoods. Using nature as a common ground, the Outward Bound Police Youth Challenge was born to bring the two sides together and teach them that they have more in common than they may think.

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  • Memphis Looks to Medical Manufacturing to Cut Poverty

    December 02, 2016 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    A just-announced $6 million federal grant will help end poverty in Memphis, Tennessee.

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