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  • How a Booming City Can Be More Equitable

    October 15, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    Durham, North Carolina works to maintain diversity of communities and perspectives by evaluating the inequities built into their current housing laws and economic opportunities. In redevelopment planning, the city also incorporates artists and activists into planning to ensure the city doesn't lose diversity of culture in its renewal plans.

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  • How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations

    October 15, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Lake Worth, Florida

    GEDmatch started as a "casual side project," but investigators have been using the genealogy website to solve murder and sexual assault cases, opening a new set of both opportunity and ethical questions. The site is free to all, so investigators have used it to match DNA information and find suspects using family connections - a strategy that concerned the founders of the site at first, although they've come around to the idea after seeing the positive impact it has had.

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  • This 24-year-old lawsuit could radically alter public education in North Carolina

    October 15, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Twenty years ago, five, poor, rural counties sued the state of North Carolina for failing to provide students with a good education, and won. In 1997 the Chief Justice Supreme Court judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in the case known as Leandro v. State. However, the decision wasn’t really enforced by the government, and until 2017 a court appointed agency was hired to investigate the state. “Leandro sets the bar but you still need to have elected officials, school officials and court officials willing to uphold it,”

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  • Rescuing Sea Turtles From Fishermen's Nets

    October 15, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Watamu

    In fishing communities, it isn't uncommon for fishermen to accidentally entrap endangered sea turtles. A non-profit in Kenya, however, has figured out a way to not only help raise awareness about the importance of releasing the turtles, but also to build trust with the fishermen and incentivize the releases.

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  • Full steam ahead: India's first women-run train station blazes a trail

    October 15, 2018 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: India, Jaipur

    The Gandhi Nagar train station is India’s first station to be run solely by women. This is groundbreaking in a country where “female employment is startlingly low, in large part due to social prejudices and general disapproval of working women.” The Gandhi Nagar station pilot has increased revenue at this location, while also demonstrating a positive model of female employment for younger women. Based on this success, Indian Railways plans to spread the all-female model to other train stations.

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  • How Malmö turned around some of its worst schools

    October 15, 2018 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Malmö

    Malmö's Örtagårdsskolan once ranked as one of Sweden's lowest-performing schools, shunned by parents from an affluent neighboring housing development. Management of Malmö's schools shifted to centralized municipal school organizations, more money was pumped into troubled schools, and class sizes shrank. While it remains a magnet for recent immigrants, one school's investment in quality teachers and other resources has improved its rankings and made it attractive once again to parents seeking the best education for their children.

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  • How to Turn a Car Town into a Cycling City

    October 15, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Eindhoven

    The Dutch city of Eindhoven was built around the car, even into the 1970s, but as part of remaking itself after its main industries declined or moved away, it has made a dramatic shift to emphasizing cycling. City officials took steps to improve infrastructure as a way to elevate the city’s image internationally and also meet the needs of locals through high-profile projects that proved so popular the city was emboldened to revamp a major motorway into a public greenspace.

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  • A small state with big ideas on rehabilitating female prisoners

    October 14, 2018 |

    Chicago Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    Across the United States, women statistically receive a higher rate of disciplinary tickets for minor infractions compared to their male counterparts. In Vermont, however, where corrections falls under the Department of Human Services, employees of the correctional facilities are trained in gender-informed practices to better suit their responses to women and men offenders.

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  • Changing the environment in Iowa's prisons to change results for women Audio icon

    October 14, 2018 |

    Chicago Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Mitchelville, Iowa

    The Iowa Correctional Institution for Women has reformed how inmates are treated, adapting approaches informed by gender and past trauma. A new campus provides private counseling suites and a mental health unit, larger cells with light controls and a visitation area with play space and a garden so women can engage with their children. Disciplinary policies have also shifted toward building women up for returning to society rather than automatic discipline for small infractions.

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  • Stopping US teens from smoking, one town at a time

    October 14, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States

    Activists hope to reduce the number of young smokers by raising the legal smoking age to 21. Instead of working for a national change, they're tackling the issue one small town at a time.

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