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  • How opera found an open ear in South Africa's townships

    Lucy Lamble Danielle Stephens

    July 25, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

    Shirley Apthorp was inspired by Venezuela's El Sistema, a national system that provides impoverished kids access to music education. She wanted to do something similar with opera in South Africa, were the genre was once a privilege enjoyed by white people. So, Apthort created Unculo, an organization that aims to support social change through music.

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  • How environmental outreach efforts are targeting Philly Latinos: The most interested in climate change, study shows

    Jesenia De Moya Correa

    July 25, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Studies have shown that U.S. Latinos are one of the mostly highly invested groups in helping fight against climate change, yet are also often left out of the conversation. Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability as well as other local agencies are making an effort to bridge that gap and engage Latinos through better targeted environmental outreach efforts.

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  • The School District Building Tiny Homes for Teachers

    Megan Kimble

    July 25, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Vail, Arizona

    A rural school district in Arizona is building a village of tiny houses for its teachers, who cannot afford to live in the district because of low salaries and high home prices. The tiny houses are being built on district-owned land and teachers pay about $125/month for rent, utilities, and Internet, but critics argue that the houses don't solve the larger issue: that teachers are not paid enough to live there.

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  • Stopping Wildfires in Their Tracks

    Richard Kenny Ammar Ebrahim

    July 24, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    As wildfires have become increasingly more pronounced due to climate change which primes areas to burn, lands and communities are being destroyed all over the world. To have a chance for survival, projects throughout Spain and North America are working towards landscape adaptation that makes the areas apt to resisting forest fire.

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  • Police encounter many people with mental-health crises. Could psychiatrists help?

    Nathaniel Morris

    July 23, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    More cities like Albuquerque and Louisville, are implementing programs that pair the resources of mental health professionals like psychiatrists with police departments to help officers deal more effectively, and less aggressively, with the mentally ill. That can mean more expense for cities and police departments, but some are seeing cost savings from the investment, as fewer people are routed into the criminal justice or hospital systems. But there are still challenges, including funding and finding enough psychiatrists and others to fill these roles.

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  • The Citizens Project

    Jill Harkins

    July 23, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    In New Haven, a two-decades long experiment in giving community to and promoting empowerment for people who have been in the criminal justice system or mental health treatment services has shown a decrease in drug use and an increase in general quality of life. The idea - that people who have isolated/alienated by a system need to be empowered as citizens to successfully re-integrate - is taking hold in other cities, including Philadelphia.

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  • The radical sheriff giving offenders a chance

    Jamiles Lartey

    July 23, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    A sheriff in northern Florida is helping break the cycle of incarceration by working to change how communities and law enforcement interact. The effort includes mentoring children of incarcerated parents, linking the department to the many religious institutions in the town and incorporating religion into jail programs, and connecting offenders to job opportunities. Over Morris Young’s tenure, juvenile arrests have dropped drastically and far fewer inmates are being sent to the state prison.

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  • So You Recycled Your Old Laptop. Here's Where It Might've Gone.

    Dominique Mosbergen

    July 20, 2018 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: China, Shanghai

    As technology advances, so does the electronic waste that it produces as people throw out their old products to make way for the new ones. To reduce their e-waste footprint and keep the materials out of landfills, companies such as Dell are pushing for closed-loop recycling – a process that reuses the recycled product to make the same product again.

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  • A summer school program uses the arts to combat the achievement gap

    Tara Garcia Mathewson

    July 19, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    A Baltimore nonprofit uses arts programming to engage students in educational activities over the summer to combat learning loss. The director of differentiated learning for the district explains, "They don't even realize we're doing math and literacy instruction because we're having so much fun." Program administrators believe models like this are important in decreasing the persistent achievement gap.

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  • How a doctor inspired a new way to train teachers — and how that is leading to a new kind of school

    Erin Einhorn

    July 18, 2018 |

    Chalkbeat |

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    Response Location: United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    To combat low retention rates and short training times for new educators, the University of Michigan - along with other programs around the country - are testing models for teacher education based off training for doctors. With the new approach, new teachers continue to receive personalized training and mentorship from veteran teachers throughout their early career instead of being "thrown into" their first classroom after only a semester of student-teaching.

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