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  • Helping Tenants Register to Vote

    August 29, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    Know how to register to vote? In St. Paul, your landlord is required to tell you. The city passed the ordinance to keep voter turnout high as the number of renters grew.

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  • Discussing women's health can be taboo in their cultures. These young women are changing that.

    August 28, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In many cultures, women are discouraged from discussing personal health issues and sexual concerns and the doctors they consult often lack a full understanding of this context. By providing support to patients and training to medical professionals, organizations throughout the greater Philadelphia area are "eager to help doctors close the gap" in their service to diverse communities.

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  • This Food Truck Owner Wants to Decolonize Your Diet

    August 28, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    A food truck in a Detroit Latinx neighborhood offers “decolonized” food—food made up of staples of the Latinx culture before colonization. In this way, the truck—and other community activists working on food issues—hopes to make healthy food available and promote healthier eating.

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  • A New Orleans Museum Is Now Mobile, Transforming How People See Art

    August 28, 2018 |

    Hyperallergic |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    The New Orleans Museum of Art is taking its holdings out of the museum and into public space through the use of a custom-built trailer. Called NOMA+, the trailer’s walls fold out creating walkways while interior walls create an exhibition space for an intimate, self-contained way for the public to engage with the art.

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  • Mobile phone data could help speed up crucial aid to disaster victims

    August 28, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: Haiti

    When disaster strikes, people are often quick to provide help -- but that help is often misdirected because it is hard to know where those who need help are located. Researchers are now exploring how to use cell towers and mobile data to predict movement and provide better services.

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  • When School Is Based on What Kids Want to Learn

    August 28, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    Paralleling the rise of standardized-test centric learning has been the mainstream emergence of an opposite form of instruction - "self-directed education." One school administrator explains, "Self-directed education is about de-schooling yourself." Schools are seeing practical benefits from students across the income spectrum, but is our hypercompetitive culture ready and willing to embrace this approach?

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  • An innovative fix for rural higher education deserts

    August 26, 2018 |

    Washington Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, Kane, Pennsylvania

    One in five Americans lives in a "higher education desert," at least twenty-five miles from the nearest college. To fill the gap, rural counties have created higher education centers or pop-up satellite campuses - one college representative explained, “We’re not going to build a gym or a swimming pool. But if you want to get a good education and continue to work your job, we can provide you with that opportunity. We represent the kind of radical innovation that higher education needs right now."

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  • Making the preschool magic last as children get older

    August 26, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Christopher House, a Chicago-based early childcare and elementary school, says it has found the key to reducing fade-out post-preschool: “You can’t teach a child without family,” Karen Ross-Williams, director of early childhood and youth development for Christopher House, says. Christopher House offers myriad support services to parents and is unique in that it offers both academics and help with basic needs at the same location.

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  • How the Smallest State is Defeating America's Biggest Addiction Crisis

    August 25, 2018 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Cranston, Rhode Island

    Inmates at Rhode Island prisons are given the option to participate in a program that provides doses of methadone or other medication to help them break free of opioid addictions, even after leaving prison. The medically-assisted treatment is part of a comprehensive plan to fight opioid addiction in Rhode Island and it's showing results, with 61% fewer fatalities from overdose for recently incarcerated people from last year.

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  • How Schools Shape Health

    August 24, 2018 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Schools in Atlanta are embedding public health clinics in their buildings for both students as well as the public at large. These clinics keep students in school by providing easy access to care rather than having them wait multiple days and begin to fall behind on work.

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