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  • Thousands of refugees can't prove they have degrees — this scheme could help

    May 29, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Greece

    First piloted in 2017, the Qualifications Passport allows refugees to apply for a document certifying their education background earned in their home country. The Council of Europe is working to spread awareness of the document and encouraging universities to accept the passport not only as a social symbol but as a formal recognition capable of leveling the playing field for refugees in the job market.

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  • Can Portable Schools in India Keep Kids Off the Streets?

    May 24, 2018 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    A Mumbai school located in a remodeled shipping container meets kids on the street where they are at. Signal School results from a collaborative effort between the city and a non-profit, and focuses on bringing education to migrant children, so that they are less likely to be forced into child labor or street begging. Signal School does more than just teach, it also provides meals, works with families to change the cultural perspective that education is an amenity for the privileged, and helps migrant families find permanent housing.

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  • Nonprofits: Providing Education For People During And After Incarceration

    May 16, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Nonprofits in the Philadelphia area work to bring education to offenders who are in corrections facilities, as well as those who are re-entering into the world. Research shows that, with access to classes, novels, and career resources, offenders are significantly less likely to be re-incarcerated than they are without these services.

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  • Georgia State, Leading U.S. in Black Graduates, Is Engine of Social Mobility

    May 15, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Since 2013, Georgia State University has graduated more African-American students than any other nonprofit college or university in the country. Georgia State takes a data-driven approach to retaining its 40,000 person population, intervening at early signs of academic trouble. The comprehensive services are "meant to provide the kind of safety net for poor students that wealthier students usually get from their families."

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  • When women have power: lessons from India's local leaders

    May 14, 2018 |

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    Response Location: India, Soda, Rajasthan

    Female government officials often have different priorities than male representatives.In India, after an experiment in government quotas for women in leadership positions, reporting of domestic violence and sexual assault has increased, along with other proof that the radical stance may have worked.

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  • New Zealand explores machine-readable laws to transform government

    May 11, 2018 |

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    Response Location: New Zealand, Wellington

    Legislation is currently written in such a way that it often takes a lawyer to interpret how policies are supposed to work. What if laws were written to be machine-readable instead? A team in New Zealand rewrote two laws as software code in a pilot program that showed how this style of writing could prove invaluable for increasing transparency and accountability across government.

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  • Special delivery: Text messages bring courses to disconnected students

    May 09, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    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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  • Chicago's South Side Finally Has an Adult Trauma Center Again

    May 01, 2018 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In 2018, years of community activism resulted in the opening of the first advanced emergency trauma care center on Chicago’s South Side since the 1990s. One study showed gun assaults taking place more than five miles from a trauma center disproportionately affected Black victims and caused higher death rates because of delays in reaching adequate care. One such fatal incident prompted protests and community organizing around demands for a Level 1 adult trauma center at University of Chicago Medical Center, which finally were successful eight years later.

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  • Copenhagen Mastermind Jan Gehl Isn't Sold on 'Smart' Cities

    April 30, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

    Copenhagen is a highly livable city, thanks to policies that focus on making streets safe and convenient to walk. The bigger the city, the worse it is to design urban spaces only with cars in mind, says planner and architect Jan Gehl. His top advice is to gather data about people and their movements, making pedestrians as visible in city planning as automobile traffic.

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  • How Indiana is expanding On My Way Pre-K into 15 rural counties

    April 30, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Indiana

    Teachers and administrators are using text messages and free food and toiletries to spread the word about the state's need-based preschool grants. Advocates report that these strategies have proven successful in reaching and recruiting families in previously untapped rural counties.

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