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  • San Jose Manufacturing Comeback Linked to Equitable Growth

    September 16, 2016 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, San Jose, California

    In San Jose, manufacturing jobs can help reduce the economic inequalities in the region. Youth from marginalized communities are being recruited to join a high tech manufacturing job with the potential for career advancement.

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  • Staying on the Land

    September 06, 2016 |

    The Taos News |

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    Response Location: United States, Taos, New Mexico

    A tax break for open space may help protect New Mexico’s farm land from development, preserving generations-old tradition and ownership, while maintaining valuable land for a future agricultural resurgence.

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  • In Uganda, Fostering a World without Adoption

    September 06, 2016 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    In Uganda, where international adoptions and orphanages are the most present form of child welfare, nonprofits like Reunite, Alternative Care Initiatives-Uganda, and CALM Africa are shifting the country to a welfare model focused on family reunification and community-based foster care. Although pilot programs are still small, there is also a focus on closing technical loopholes and providing practical support to encourage foster care programs.

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  • Tired of being humiliated, these girls fought the school dress code. And won.

    September 01, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    School dress codes overwhelmingly affect girls, and being accused of breaking the code results in missed school and wearing 'shame clothes'. A few Portland students fought the school board, and it resulted in a new gender neutral dress code.

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  • Is universal preschool the answer? Britain says ‘yes'

    August 23, 2016 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Bristol

    Since 2004, the national government in England has paid for all three-year-olds to receive 15 free hours of child-care per week. Since the program was implemented, the academic achievement gap between high-income and low-income children has been shrinking and more children are performing well upon entering primary school on both academic and non-academic measures. Can the United States, where the average family with children under 5 spends 9% of its annual income on child care, translate any parts of the UK's model to its own early education policies?

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  • Connecting social justice and black identity at a national debate camp in Baltimore

    August 04, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    In the past, debate teams have lacked diversity and have been mostly compromised by white students. Beginning in the 1990s, Urban Debate Leagues engaged minority students and challenged the traditional style of debate, which was disconnected from communities of color. In cities like Baltimore, students of color are encouraged to debate by talking about their “black identity and structural racism.”

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  • Chronically Absent: Is Quality Education in Juvenile Detention Possible in Mississippi?

    July 27, 2016 |

    Jackson Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Pelahatchie, Mississippi

    Many years of work to improve juvenile-detention centers in Mississippi may curb recidivism rates by increasing the quality of life in detention. Despite those efforts, however, centers might still be unable to give detained students what they need the most—a quality education.

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  • After the Violence and Videos, Therapists Learn to Treat Racial Trauma

    July 22, 2016 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    Black communities are often left without adequate counseling services when faced with racial trauma, but clinical psychologists are working to address this. So far, solutions include opening clinics that specialize in African-American mental health and social media campaigns focused on normalizing conversations around mental health awareness in the Black community.

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  • San Diego Climate Plan Means Big Potential for Jobs

    July 22, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    The poorest are the ones living in the most unhealthy neighbourhoods where air particles are more detrimental. The Climate Action Plan is dedicated to using cleantech while also using this as an opportunity for job creation for city's poorest as a way to help them live above the poverty line.

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  • Some Seattle schools end ‘tracking' in push for equity and success

    July 09, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Educators in the Seattle area are making a move to desegregate schools by removing track-based course structures. Inspired by the work and research of one school in New York, Washington is seeing results in closing the achievement gap by blending general-education students with those in advanced courses, creating a stimulating environment for all and better opportunities for minority students.

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