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  • Curing Violence Like an Infectious Disease

    July 30, 2015 |

    Tiny Spark |

    Podcast |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Neighborhoods in Chicago suffer from gang violence and gun-related deaths. A church leader and a physician trained in infectious diseases created Cure Violence, a program that sends teams of local residents to meet with gang leaders as a means of producing positive behavioral change by re-setting social norms. Their approach has reduced violence between 40% and 70%.

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  • Repurposing historic buildings on Detroit's medical campuses

    July 14, 2015 |

    Model D |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Two local hospital systems have worked diligently to balance the preservation of the historic character of their campuses with the need to keep their facilities state-of-the-art. Communities have chosen to repurpose old medical buildings instead of demolishing them and losing the history of the site.

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  • Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia

    June 24, 2015 |

    Mongabay |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Brazil

    The Matsés, an indigenous population in Brazil in Peru, teamed up with Acaté, a conservation group, to create a medicinal knowledge encyclopedia. The encyclopedia was compiled by five shamans, took two years, is 500 pages long, and “details every plant used by Matsés to cure a massive variety of ailments.” It not only preserves ancestral knowledge, but is seen as a way to improve the health of Matsés and future generations. “Until their encyclopedia, the Matsés entire traditional health system was on the unchecked verge of disappearance.”

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  • The Case Against Isolating English Learners

    June 22, 2015 |

    Voice of San Diego |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    School districts across the country struggle with helping their “English-learner” students learn English and academic content at the same time. Kearny High School in San Diego does not isolate these special students, instead using the school-within-a-school model to help place their non-English speakers in content areas that interest them. This model has shown to put the English learners at Kearny in the top API scores in the San Diego district.

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  • Houston's Learning Curve

    May 21, 2015 |

    Politico |

    Text |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    When immigrant children come to America, they are faced with culture shock, language barriers, and a system of education different from where their original country. Houston’s Las Americas Newcomer School is designed to ease the adjustment of immigrant and refugee children as they enter the American educational system. Las Americas offers competitive wages for teachers, teaching in several different languages, and preparation for the SAT as the school has the highest rate of minority participation.

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  • Montana Offers A Boost To Native Language Immersion Programs

    May 02, 2015 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Missoula, Montana

    Montana, home to nine Native American languages, becomes the second state to fund indigenous language immersion programs in public schools. The same languages were once forbidden, but now they are helping to preserve a disappearing culture and closing the graduation rate gap for Native American students.

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  • A New Way to Commemorate Atrocity

    April 14, 2015 |

    Pacific Standard |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Memorials are being created at rapid rates these days, but they seem to lack a long-term effect on the public. The Chicago Torture Justice Memorials project seeks to change this pattern by putting out an international call for memorial proposals, wanting a variety in visions and a collective memorial, in order to remember the torture of black detainees and racialized police misconduct.

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  • Can grains of the past help us weather storms of the future?

    February 09, 2015 |

    Ensia |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India, Sundarbans

    After a devastating cyclone changed the nature of local soil, NGOs preserved Indian rice crops by reintroducing traditional rice varieties that can be cultivated even in salt-ridden earth. Although some first met this idea with skepticism, many farmers have now adopted the practice after witnessing the success of the crops.

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  • How the Fight Against Ebola Tested a Culture's Traditions

    January 30, 2015 |

    National Geographic |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Sierra Leone, Freetown, Western Area

    In the face of the deadliest Ebola outbreak in modern history, health officials found themselves struggling to prevent the virus from spreading due to clashes with local traditions, cultural mistrust of outsiders, conflict, and misconceptions about healthcare in West Africa. To effectively treat patients and stop the spread of the disease, organizations had to work closely with locals and adapt procedures to incorporate their culture.

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  • From the Deep South, an Overlooked Chapter in Art History

    January 24, 2015 |

    Hyperallergic |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    In the absence of attention from the art world, Bill Arnett took it upon himself to collect, document, and build scholarship around the work of self-taught African American artists living in the South. The organization he developed for this purpose, the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, has now negotiated a donation of 57 works to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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