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  • As Other Districts Grapple With Segregation, This One Makes Integration Work

    December 12, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Morristown, New Jersey

    The Morris district in Northern New Jersey has long championed diversity, even as its student body has changed and nearby schools remain deeply segregated. Each elementary school in the district draws from multiple neighborhoods, with a constant open zone at the center (where the poorest families live) where students are assigned to schools in order to maintain racial and economic diversity.

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  • Nature Might Hold the Secret to Healing Police-Community Relations

    December 05, 2016 |

    Outside |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    After charged discussions and protests around racial injustice within police departments, Baltimore set out to find a solution to bridge the divide created between the city's police force and the kids that lived in stereotyped neighborhoods. Using nature as a common ground, the Outward Bound Police Youth Challenge was born to bring the two sides together and teach them that they have more in common than they may think.

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  • JPS Students Avoid Conflict with Peer Mediation

    November 30, 2016 |

    Jackson Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    Whitten Preparatory, a mostly black middle school, is one of four schools in Jackson that are trying to combat disciplinary issues and keep violence low by using peer mediation - training students to be mediators so they can help their classmates come to a peaceful resolution to their issues.

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  • Uganda's LGBT faith leaders say God's love is unconditional

    November 29, 2016 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    In Uganda, religious leaders and anti-gay individuals have been very vocal against the LGBTI community and have disowned many LGBTI religious leaders. This has led some of these leaders to publicly come out and advocate for others and speak of their own experiences, showing the possibility of being LGBTI and religious.

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  • Helping children: Project aims to shift how community sees black males

    November 26, 2016 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The depiction of young black men in pop culture, music, arts and academia is overwhelmingly negative, and many of the young men internalise that narrative. To change the way the Oakland community views black men, the Office of African American Male Achievement hired more black male teachers to be positive role models both inside the classroom and out in the community.

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  • Schools help Colombians remember what it means to forgive

    November 03, 2016 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Colombia

    Around 2 million Columbians are enrolled in a government funded program aimed at helping people forgive one another. Former guerilla fighters, militants, and victims of violence get together to talk to each other. “I started feeling less rage. I started feeling this pain.”

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  • How one tiny high school hacked Advanced Placement classes

    October 10, 2016 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Paonia, Colorado

    In 2011, the Colorado Education Initiative (CEI), an education advocacy and research organization, launched the Colorado Legacy Schools project. The program funded innovative ways to increase the number and diversity of students taking AP classes. Instead of applying for funds to train teachers and subsidize test fees, Paonia High teamed up with two nearby schools to more than triple their collective AP offerings. It’s a promising model for rural, resource-limited schools trying to bring more college-prep opportunities to their few students.

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  • Somali-American outreach workers bridge divide between community and government

    October 08, 2016 |

    Minnesota Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    Somali-Minnesotans feel that US counter terrorism programs are suspicious of them and thus not there to help. A growing number of Somali-Americans have been recruited by public programs to improve relations between Minnesota’s Somali community and government agencies.

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  • The Empathetic Police Academy

    October 04, 2016 |

    Starbucks Channel |

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    Response Location: United States, Burlen, Washington

    Susan Rahr, a former sheriff, didn’t agree with the “boot camp atmosphere” of police academies. She also didn’t agree with the tough vigilante, us vs them attitude she observed from her fellow officers, and in school. So, when she became director of the Criminal Justice Training Center she changed the curriculum. The program has become a “national model of how law enforcement officers can be more empathetic to and respectful of the communities they serve without diminishing their own safety.”

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  • Minnesota Somalis work to root out homegrown terror from within

    September 17, 2016 |

    Minnesota Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    Somali-Minnesotans are at risk for homegrown extremists but are suspicious of federal investigations in their community. A federal pilot project is using outreach programs to include the Somali community in the solution to reduce violent extremism.

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