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  • Innovators Changing Education, Health By Thinking Outside The Box

    December 18, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Camden, Maine

    This year’s Poptech Conference, a 19-year-old gathering for thinkers and world-changers, celebrated hybrid thinking across industry sectors, or “when disciplinary boundaries fall by the wayside" - four of their projects are discussed.

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  • New York's Big Climate Plan Really Does Include Oysters

    December 15, 2015 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Staten Island, New York

    Tottenville, on Staten Island, will get oyster-friendly breakwaters and a dune system as part of post-Sandy rebuilding efforts. The oysters will help revive the ecosystem and sustain the long-term fishing economy.

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  • In one of Africa's largest slums, these girls saved to solve a problem

    December 14, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi, Nairobi

    Girls from the Nairobi slum of Kibera had a problem: They could not attend school because they could not afford sanitary pads. Absent government help, they decided to form a savings group, depositing and investing money.

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  • As 50 States Prepare to Reimagine Education Policy, Four Are Able to Offer Guidance

    December 09, 2015 |

    Education Week |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    The Innovation Lab Network (ILN) is a made up of a network of states that work collaboratively to transform their respective school systems. The ILN seeks to make meaningful systems-level changes in state education systems and they have shared their insights in four short films and manage a website with resources. The solutions emphasize local engagement and authority, extreme patience, and a framework that places the strengths and passions of young people at the center.

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  • ‘Early college' offers chance to achieve in high school

    December 07, 2015 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Pharr, Texas

    A growing number of high schools across the U.S. offer free college courses to low-income students in an effort to help them make the transition from high school to college and afford the rising cost of a degree.

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  • Fresh-made meals a learning experience at schools

    December 05, 2015 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Most public schools lunches are cheap, frozen meals, which satisfy federal nutrition standards but kids don't eat them so student performance suffers. A school in Boston partnered with a non-profit to test entrees that are cheap, healthy, and that the students like.

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  • How an ambitious new program aims to fight poverty and help kids learn, one block at a time

    December 02, 2015 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Arvada, Colorado

    To mitigate the pernicious effects of poverty on student success, nonprofit 'Blocks of Hope' in Colorado aims to provide both educational and social services to students and their families, with the goal of leveling the playing field.

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  • Chocolate gets sweeter: How consumer outrage is reducing child labor in Ghana

    November 30, 2015 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Ghana, Accra

    The cocoa industry’s worst child labor abuses are beginning to be cleaned up. The changes are, in many ways, unprecedented.

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  • A Daily Dose of Ecotherapy Eases Stress in Kids

    November 25, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Ecotherapy is a term used to describe the positive impacts of using nature as a form of therapy for those experiencing psychological stressors. While this form of treatment is already being used to help veterans deal with PTSD, studies are also showing it may have similar benefits for children who are facing pressures.

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  • A fight to keep students in class

    November 20, 2015 |

    IndyStar (The Indianapolis Star) |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    Indianapolis' Howe High School has joined the movement surfacing in America's public schools towards restorative justice. In 2015, in lieu of suspensions and expulsions, Howe's leadership formed a peer justice jury to help fighting students talk through their conflicts and anger. Just one year after the program's inception, the school's expulsion rate decreased 90 percent, saving over 600 hours of what otherwise would have been students' lost classroom time.

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