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  • Can putting the least-experienced teachers in the highest-risk schools ever result in success?

    December 25, 2017 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, McDowell County, West Virginia

    High rates of teacher turnover plaguing McDowell County were the reason behind a new initiative, Reconnecting McDowell, to reverse the trend. The district began creating a number of incentives to attract teachers, such as student loan support, higher salaries, and providing mentors for younger teachers. Two other efforts—to improve roads and build an apartment complex for younger residents—were stalled due to funding cuts. This article was written on the sixth anniversary of Reconnecting McDowell, and while there have been many challenges, change is slowly coming and people are still optimistic.

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  • Carbondale Cops Learn Spanish in Compliance with Town Resolution

    December 22, 2017 |

    KDNK Community Radio |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Carbondale, Colorado

    To mitigate against growing concerns about the disconnect between Carbondale, Colorado police officers and community members, a local high school proposed a plan: have the cops learn Spanish. Not only has this impacted the police departments outreach, but it has also improved community and police trust.

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  • Arkansas Spurns Warehousing of Floundering Students

    December 22, 2017 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, Bentonville, Arkansas

    The state of Arkansas cares deeply about the wellbeing of its students, as evidenced by its flourishing system of alternative schools that provide extra counseling in academics, social and mental support, and research-backed techniques that reduce bad behavior, poor grades, and absenteeism. The schools even work to dismantle the taboo around alternative schools, presenting them as an intervention rather than a punishment. The introduction of these schools correlates with a decline in Arkansas' overall dropout rate from 2002 to 2012, and nearly 10% of its graduates have spent time in alternative education.

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  • Philly's Gang Violence Strategy Doesn't Work. Here's Why.

    December 21, 2017 |

    The Appeal |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The "Focused Deterrence" approach to lowering gang violence was hailed as a success in Philly when shootings went down, but is that the whole story? The strategy is also receiving some notable critiques, including the claim that the social services and employment opportunities it claims to provide have been less than forthcoming.

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  • Lessons from Seattle: How this alternative to jail may be a solution for Utah

    December 20, 2017 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    A program piloted in Seattle and now replicated in several cities nationwide aims to redirect low-level drug offenders into a case management system that can help them change their lives by connecting them with social services and advocating for their wellbeing. The program is called Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion, or LEAD, and police officers can direct people into it if they are suspected of having committed a drug crime.

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  • The Network Keeping Dallas' Most Vulnerable Citizens Afloat

    December 18, 2017 |

    Politico |

    Photojournalism |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    In Dallas, where the poverty rate was only lower than in Houston and Philadelphia in 2017, nonprofits and charities are using a comprehensive approach to provide immediate relief. Local organizations like Sharing Life Community Outreach provide food pantries, free clothing, personal services, and also partner with local hospitals to share valuable information.

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  • A Museum Designed for City Life Debuts

    December 15, 2017 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    MICRO, a new New York City-based non-profit, has developed niche-emphasizing, science-focused “museums” around the city. Through these installations, MICRO brings art and environmental knowledge to people outside of a formal museum setting as well as shining a light on often overlooked topics. In order to bring niche-emphasizing, science-focused museums into being, a non-profit named MICRO has begun creating small exhibitions in public places for New York City residents to discover.

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  • In the race to help Latino students, one California county pulls ahead

    December 13, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Moreno Valley, California

    In 2016, California's Riverside County achieved an 86 percent graduation rate, second to only Orange County in the state. The impressive spike followed in the wake of a multi-pronged, data-focused drive to support predominantly low-income students through the oftentimes complicated and unfamiliar college application process. Local nonprofit director Ryan Smith says, “We often ask [students and families] to navigate a system not designed for them, instead of meeting students where they’re at." Riverside is working to change that reality.

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  • The push to find more gifted kids: What Washington can learn from Miami's wins

    December 07, 2017 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    In most "gifted" programs across the U.S., students are predominantly middle income and white, regardless of the variation in demographics between districts. Since the 1990s, Miami public schools have made it their quest to defy this trend and identify overlooked students who may be still learning English as a second language or whose potential may not be identified by traditional tests designed to find "gifted" students. In Miami, low-income and ESOL students take a different test than peers designed to account for certain stressors not present in other students' lives. Can Washington learn from this model?

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  • Portugal's radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn't the world copied it?

    December 05, 2017 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Portugal, Olhão

    After the fall of an oppressive and isolating regime, Portugal found itself utterly unprepared to deal with the rapid distribution of narcotics in the 1980s, creating a crisis that left 1 in every 10 people struggling with addiction. The country took a radical approach to rectifying opioid use through a huge cultural shift in the way it viewed and treated addicts - prioritizing support services and pioneering programs like needle-exchange and substitution therapy, and eventually decriminalizing hard drugs so that users could more easily get help, and drug rates have since plummeted.

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