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  • Classrooms Without Walls, and Hopefully Covid

    October 27, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Schools across the country are trying a different approach to teaching safely during the pandemic: outdoors teaching. This article provides four examples of schools implementing this method and how they did it, from the Cape Cod to Wisconsin.

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  • For those with disabilities, shift to remote work has opened doors

    October 27, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many businesses moving their operations to remote-based work, which has consequently expanded access and eliminated barriers for those with disabilities. Although working from home isn't a silver bullet to solving workplace barriers for people with accessibility needs, it has created an "unprecedented level of accessibility in their employment."

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  • Saving Cape Cod's dolphins

    October 27, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United States, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

    To prevent the mass stranding of dolphins on Cape Cod, staff and volunteers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare are utilizing technology to work efficiently and quickly to save these creatures. An app called Send Word Now helps coordinate their 220 rescue volunteers along the coast, which has led to an increased in dolphin survival rate over the years. In Wellfleet, researchers are using sound recording devices to listen to dolphin sounds, which can help predict if they’re about to strand and offers more time for first responders to help.

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  • At Voters' Service

    October 27, 2020 |

    Columbia Journalism Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    Ohio media outlets have provided practical voter information to combat confusion. WOSU, the local NPR affiliate, created an online guide for mail-in voting, with deadlines prominently bolded and videos explaining how to request and fill out absentee ballots. They also ran six call-in shows to give listeners practical information about voting and an opportunity to hear from election administrators and voting-rights experts. The Columbus Dispatch and the Akron Beacon Journal, among others, have run voting “how-to” articles and created informational guides with candidate profiles and ballot explainers.

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  • How They Did It: Tracking Down a Rwandan Genocide Suspect

    October 27, 2020 |

    Global Investigative Journalism Network |

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    Response Location: France, Orléans

    Years after international authorities had stopped searching for a man suspected of being an architect of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a freelance journalist spent eight months searching data and doing on the ground reporting to find the suspect in central France. A story on the find by journalist Théo Englebert led Rwanda to issue an arrest warrant and a French prosecutor to open a counterterrorism investigation. Englebert's sleuthing provides a tutorial on "finding someone who wants to disappear."

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  • This Addiction Treatment Works. Why Is It So Underused?

    October 27, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A substance abuse program known as contingency management offers incentives to those who to stay in treatment and remain abstinent from the use of drugs. Although not all agree with the merits of the program and question the underlying morals of the concept, anecdotal accounts from participants and studies have shown that it can be "highly effective" in helping to treat substance abuse.

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  • Music class during coronavirus: How the band plays on

    October 27, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Canada, Stratford, Ontario

    In Canada "hands-on, in-person music classes" have been approved as acceptable to hold during the coronavirus pandemic, but the safety precautions have made it difficult to achieve an ideal outcome. Rather than continue to hold classes this way, teachers are finding creative ways to address the barriers such as combining in-person lessons with at-home performances.

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  • Ismaili, Ahmadi Muslims push national voter registration efforts

    October 26, 2020 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Response Location: United States

    Muslim civic advocacy groups Emgage and Ismailis Rise Up have partnered to engage a more diverse Muslim population in the 2020 election. They added thousands of contacts among new Muslim voters in six states, trained volunteers in electoral organizing and countering voter suppression, use personal connections to encourage people to vote, and will staff the Election Protection Hotline, where voters can get help in their native language. They also published videos about voter registration and mail-in voting in languages commonly spoken by Ismaili families and held virtual events aimed at mobilizing seniors.

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  • Com envolvimento da comunidade, casos de malária caem quase 20 vezes no norte do Amazonas

    October 26, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Amazonia

    A reportagem mostra que moradores de comunidades do Baixo Rio Negro, no Amazonas, conseguiram diminuir a taxa de tempo entre os primeiros sintomas da malária e o início do tratamento de 68,9% em 2005 para 14,3% em 2010 por terem sido treinados para diagnosticar precocemente a doença com o uso de microscópios. A participação dos moradores também foi responsável para a redução de 94% do número de casos.

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  • Calling home: Sheltering in hotels to escape coronavirus, Acadiana's homeless got back on their feet

    October 26, 2020 |

    The Current (Louisiana) |

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    Response Location: United States, Lafayette, Louisiana

    In southwestern Louisiana, the Acadiana Regional Coalition on Homelessness and Housing wrangled 19 hotels into a makeshift network during the pandemic to house people experiencing homelessness. With help from Beacon Community Connections' counselors, the 456 people who entered the program found the stability and services they needed to connect with government benefits and, in some cases, find jobs. The program's Housing First approach, to admit the chronically unhoused without preconditions like sobriety, creates disciplinary challenges but put many on a path to a better life.

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