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  • A low-income Brooklyn high school where 100 percent of black male students graduate

    Meredith Kolodner

    July 14, 2015 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The overall graduation rate for black male students in New York City was 58 percent in 2014 - student retention rates are equally poor. But one school achieved a 100% on-time graduation rate last year, motivating their students with a student-founded, student-sustained 'fraternity'.

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  • Anchored in hope: How Toronto is learning from Cleveland's return to prosperity

    Sara Mojtehedzadeh

    April 18, 2015 |

    Toronto Star |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    After decades of economic and social despair that once saw it named the poorest big city in America, Cleveland has become a model of revitalization, thanks to a unique “anchor strategy” that harnesses the immense wealth and power of the city’s public institutions.

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  • New San Diego-Tijuana Survey Holds Mirror Up to Border Cities

    Gregory Scruggs

    February 26, 2015 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Former Bogotá mayor Antonas Mockus has implemented his Citizenship Culture Survey, which measures local public opinions on legal culture, behavior regulation systems, mobility, tolerance, tax culture, public safety, agreements, civic participation, mutual regulation, public trust and victimization, across San Diego and Tijuana. The first ever binational survey of its kind aimed to measure shared social values to inform a cross-border civic council.

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  • How to Design a City for Women

    Clare Foran

    September 06, 2013 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Australia, Vienna

    Gender mainstreaming is the practice of creating “laws, rules and regulations that benefit men and women equally. The goal is to provide equal access to city resources.” Since the 90s the city of Vienna has adopted this into their urban planning, building things like apartment complexes for women, parks, and public transit that takes into consideration a women’s routine. In total, more than 60 projects to date have been built around this concept. “Once you’ve analyzed the patterns of use of public space, you start to define the needs and interests of the people using it," she explains. "Then planning can be

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