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  • Affordable housing is disappearing. So cities are designating parking lots to sleep in.

    October 11, 2019 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Barbara, California

    Cities like Santa Barbara are creating "Safe Parking Programs" that designate certain parking lots as safe and legal for residents living in their cars to park at night. An organized intake procedure on-site attempts to connect these homeless residents with relevant resources.

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  • This Top Gifted and Talented School Is Integrated. Is It the Future?

    October 10, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Amidst controversy over gifted programs in New York City, a school in Harlem believes it can offer an alternative model with an admissions policy that bakes in diversity. The school has designated almost half of the spots in its incoming kindergarten class to disadvantaged students, and “the parent-teacher association encourages local East Harlem parents to apply.” But these policies may not work for other gifted schools, who see the diversity of its student body drop lower and lower every year.

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  • Helping Low-Income Students Navigate College

    October 10, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A number of elite college prep programs are offering wraparound academic support to low-income students for up to eight years in an effort to replicate the built-in support provided by schools in wealthier districts.

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  • Where 4-Year Schools Find a Pool of Applicants: 2-Year Schools

    October 10, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Four-year colleges are increasingly tapping into community college populations to recruit driven and diverse students. This process also helps students who ultimately transfer to four-year institutions significantly cut down on higher education costs.

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  • Kendall businesses to try a different kind of experiment — fixing traffic

    October 09, 2019 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    In 2016, MIT’s Transit Lab made huge changes in the transportation benefits it provided, including subsidizing public transportation for close to 11,000 employees and increasing the costs of employee parking. As smaller business in Cambridge’s Kendall Square come together to address the city’s transportation issues, it looks to MIT as a source of inspiration and hopes its collective approach can be used across the country.

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  • 'Talk With Me Baby': Alabama launches initiative to decrease language deficit among young children

    October 04, 2019 |

    The Montgomery Advertiser |

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    Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

    Kids in high-income families hear about 2,000 words every hour, whereas kids in low-income families hear about 600 in the same amount of time. Alabama is rolling out a program to close the language acquisition gap for students under the age of 4.

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  • After Hurricane Dorian, The 'Wikipedia Of Maps' Came To The Rescue

    October 03, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States

    Humanitarian, crowdsourced street mapping has become a crucial part of disaster relief efforts. Initiatives like Missing Maps and OpenStreetMaps call on volunteer cartographers – professional or not – to fill in maps and data gaps so that emergency humanitarian efforts can help as many people as possible. Such platforms became necessary after Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas in September 2019, with over 100 people coming through to map previously unidentified roads and buildings.

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  • 5 Decades Later, New Communities Land Trust Still Helps Black Farmers

    October 03, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Albany, Georgia

    The New Communities Land Trust was created in the 1960s as a way to build power and equity for and among African Americans in Georgia. The Trust works with Black farmers on many different levels, including helping them strengthen their farming practices and businesses. While the Trust was lost in 1985 due to discriminatory bank practices, it was restarted with a $12 million settlement from the federal government.

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  • Free For All: Clarke County School District Provides Free Meals to Every Student

    October 03, 2019 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    Clarke County School District in Georgia has 21 public schools that all offer free meals to students, regardless of their financial needs. This is facilitated through a federally-funded program, so even though poverty rates are high in the area, local residents are not footing the bill. While there are still some challenges implementing the program, in general it is received well and allows students to focus on their work and well-being instead of being distracted by hunger.

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  • Farmers of Color Find New Allies

    October 01, 2019 |

    The Innovator |

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    Response Location: United States, Petersburg, New York

    The online Reparations for Black-Indigenous Farmers map connects farmers across the United States in an effort to support those who have been historically oppressed. Those who participate voluntarily pay reparations to the over 50 Black and Indigenous farmers’ projects that have been listed as a way of (re)building centuries of discrimination.

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