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Universal mental health screenings to be introduced in local middle schools

Madison Miller

August 31, 2018 |

Kirkland Reporter |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Washington

In response to a growing suicide rate, Washington State's King County school district is trying to take a proactive approach by incorporating a universal mental health screening through online surveys in seventh grade health classes.

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Farmers see promise and profit for agroforestry in southern Kenya

Kagondu David Njagi

August 31, 2018 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Kerita

Climate change coupled with an increasing human population is reducing the amount of land that Kenya farmers are able to use for profitable crops. To get the most out of what's left of the arid land, many are turning to agroforestry projects and are seeing results in the form of healthier land and increased profits.

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These lessons from rural Africa could help eradicate poverty-related tropical diseases in the U.S. South

Lyndsey Gilpin

August 30, 2018 |

Southerly |

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Response Location: Nigeria

In the 1980s, throughout African and Asian countries, a tropical disease known as guinea worm was being transmitted through contaminated stagnant water. Thanks to a combination of endeavors that included "education and intervention programs, funding for clean water access, and government-supported public health campaigns," the near eradication of this epidemic is now being used as a model for how to combat other diseases in various parts of the world.

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A little-known program has lifted 9th grade performance in virtually every type of school

Tara Garcia Mathewson

August 30, 2018 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) program sticks to a simple motto: “Same Students. Same Teachers. Better Results." With this low-key saying, BARR has transformed the performance of students at a wide range of schools - from low-income, low-performing schools to affluent institutions. The key to its success? To start, teachers gather periodically to share notes, concerns and plans about each individual ninth grader.

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In a posh Bangkok neighbourhood, residents trade energy with blockchain

Rina Chandran

August 28, 2018 |

Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Thailand, Bangkok

In Bangkok’s Sukhumvit neighborhood, solar panels generate renewable energy, which is traded using blockchain between an apartment building, a mall, a school, and a dental hospital. The pilot project demonstrates the potential of decentralized renewable energy systems.

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Sparking a Mini-Movement of Worker Cooperatives in Southeast L.A.

Alejandra Molina

August 28, 2018 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

COOP LA in Los Angeles is a commercial space featuring business commonly found across the city but with a distinct difference: they are all worker cooperatives. These cooperatives effectively create jobs and develop locally owned businesses as well as accomplish this without the neighborhood falling prey to gentrification.

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Locals Divided Between Diversion and Border Security

Jesse Alejandro Cottrell

August 26, 2018 |

70 Million |

Podcast |

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Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

Pima County, Arizona, eased its jail overcrowding with reforms that reduced the jail population by 400 people. Its Community Collaborative put key players from the criminal justice system, plus formerly incarcerated people, on a team that created programs to divert cases from incarceration to treatment, screen people to detain fewer people before trial, and a new court to reduce the problems working people had in making court dates. A new jail was no longer needed. But a federal border program that gave the county incentives to make needless arrests undercut some of those reforms.

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Students are dropping out of college before even starting. Here's how educators are trying to stop the trend.

Nick Anderson

August 25, 2018 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

A Harvard study found that, in Boston, 10 to 20 percent of college-bound high school graduates weren't actually ending up enrolling in college. Researchers think they might have found a partial solution to what is known as the "melt trend" - in this approach, mentors send text messages throughout the summer reminding students of upcoming financial aid and registration deadlines and offering general encouragement.

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Stepping away from suspensions: How schools are dealing with behavior

Krista Johnson

August 24, 2018 |

The Montgomery Advertiser |

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Response Location: United States, Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery’s school superintendent has ambitious goals to drastically cut the number of suspensions in her district. Ann Roy Moore is looking to San Francisco’s “push-in” intervention model and Elmore County, Alabama’s alternative in-school suspension method to inform its own plans for a restorative justice approach.

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Global initiatives focus on child-friendly spaces

Beth Amato

August 24, 2018 |

Business Day |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

Some urban planners argue that urban spaces should be designed around children because that makes a livable, walkable space for everyone, and also contributes to healthy early brain development. Several initiatives are underway in and around Johannesburg, South Africa to redesign public spaces and make them more welcoming. At least one community group is working with children, teenagers and people who work with children to identify places that could be improved for better child protection.

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