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  • The Rise of Dual Credit

    September 22, 2020 |

    Education Next |

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    Response Location: United States

    Dual credit classes were a response to the increasing costs of attending college and university and to make postsecondary education more accessible to low-income students. Although low-income and minority students are still having trouble accessing dual credit courses, research shows they have some level of success. “Research shows that students who take dual credit courses are more likely to enroll in and complete college than students who don’t—and to finish faster, too.”

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  • How trucking eels is reviving a river

    September 17, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Conowingo, Maryland

    Biologists are trapping baby eels in the Susquehanna River and are physically relocating them via trucks upstream past hydroelectric dams. These dams have interrupted the natural migration route the eels have traditionally taken, which has had unintended consequences for other ecosystems on the East Coast. While this technique, known as assisted migration, may be one way to save some species from climate change, some question whether the cost and conservation consequences are worth it. So far, biologists have have moved over 1 million eels since 2008.

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  • COVID-19 Has Crushed Everybody's Economy—Except for South Korea's

    September 16, 2020 |

    Foreign Policy |

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    Response Location: South Korea, Gyeonggi

    South Korea's economic growth is one of the few that have not stagnated or declined during the coronavirus pandemic. Although much of this is due to how effectively the country handled containment protocols from the start, the overall fiscal response – which included encouraging residents to reinvest government payouts in local businesses – also played a significant role. In one province, this included using non-cash payments "that could only be spent in shops inside the region, rather than as cash that could be hoarded."

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  • Masks effect hard to isolate, but officials say they're important layer of protection

    September 16, 2020 |

    Jackson Hole News & Guide |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

    Data collected from a handful of states where the idea of mask wearing has spread and been adopted, shows that after three weeks' time, the average daily growth rate of COVID-19 cases decreases. Although experts say that mask-wearing is not a solution on its own, the benefits of government mandates to wear a mask do still make an impact and the effectiveness only increases over time.

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  • ‘Tons and tons of fishing equipment': B.C. tour operators clean up ocean debris during coronavirus pandemic

    September 15, 2020 |

    The Narwhal |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver Island

    Expeditions to clean up debris from the coastline are underway along the B.C. coast after an ecotourism company was forced to stop tours during the pandemic. The project is largely funded by the B.C. government’s Clean Coast, Clean Waters Initiative Fund, and involves five different companies. In just one expedition, 61 tonnes of garbage was collected and removed via volunteers, a helicopter, and a barge.

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  • The David And Goliath Story Playing Out In Alaska's Fisheries

    September 14, 2020 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    A small, southeast-Alaskan fishing community banded together to protect the source of its livelihood from industrial fishing. Legislation officially protected 70,000 square miles of pristine waters in 1998. The ban on industrial fishing has resulted in much smaller, sustainable fisheries that have kept the ocean habitat flourishing and business booming for local fisheries. A cooperative model prevents overfishing and maintains a healthy ocean habitat.

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  • Spy planes provide modest help to Baltimore crime fight over three months, researchers find

    September 11, 2020 |

    The Baltimore Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    After three months of a pilot project putting video-equipped planes in flight over Baltimore, police made arrests in 21% of the 81 cases in which video evidence was provided. The arrest rate is slightly greater than in the many more cases that were not aided by aerial video. But researchers and police have not concluded from the evidence that the project is effective enough to continue after its six-month, privately funded run. Civil liberties advocates have challenged use of the so-called spy planes, which the city hopes will help combat its high rate of homicides and other violent crimes.

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  • When contact tracing works, families, friends and co-workers avoid infection

    September 11, 2020 |

    WCNC-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Health officials in North Carolina have shown that contact tracing can successfully identify those who have been exposed to COVID-19. The efforts of the contact tracers in one county resulted in 35 people being quarantined after an exposure to the virus during a child's birthday party, however that was only possible because of those individuals "were willing to be open and honest and forthcoming."

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  • How a $3 billion USDA coronavirus program is helping feed S.C. families

    September 10, 2020 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Bluffton, South Carolina

    A new initiative from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is helping connect farmers with those who are facing food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic. The program, known as Farmers to Families, allocates monetary contracts to companies that go towards distributing boxes of produce to families. In South Carolina, one farm has been able to distribute over 5.2 million pounds of food throughout the southeast region of the state.

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  • NYPD Study: Implicit Bias Training Changes Minds, Not Necessarily Behavior

    September 10, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    After all 36,000 New York Police Department officers took required training in recognizing implicit racial bias, more officers understood how racism may increase officers' aggressiveness but there was no evidence that this awareness translated into a less racially disparate outcome in the numbers of people stopped and frisked. Since the protests of police bias that started in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014, most states have imposed mandatory implicit-bias training on police. NYPD's study is a rare measurement of the effects such training can have.

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