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  • We Know One Way To Stop Sexual Assault, But Students Aren't Doing It

    September 23, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    A national survey showed that few college students intervene when witnessing a sexual assault. The school with the highest rate of student intervention was Dartmouth College, where students receive bystander prevention training.

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  • Can Bats Reduce Nut Farmers' Pesticide Use?

    September 21, 2015 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    In California some farms lose up to 10 percent of their crop due to coddling moths. Davis University is measuring the impact bats have on various walnut farms, such as potential savings from reduced insecticide use and crop loss to insects.

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  • A New Way of Fighting Crime—and Helping Victims—on the Violent Streets of Los Angeles

    September 11, 2015 |

    Slate |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Four community groups in the Los Angeles area work to address the root causes of what draws young people into gangs with a mix of approaches to help people leave the gang life, including education and job services, counseling, addiction services, and tattoo removal. Some also focus on helping victims since so many gang members start out life as victims themselves and this feeds into a cycle of violence. All of them focus on creating community and belonging, which is why so many young people join gangs in the first place.

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  • The “gifted” system in US schools is broken, racist, and completely fixable

    September 11, 2015 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: United States

    "Gifted" programs in the United States are often not representative of school populations, with a disproportionate number of spots going to white and well off students. The National Bureau of Economic Research found that when one district implemented universal screening programs in lieu of teacher referrals to identify gifted students, there was a 180% increase in disadvantaged students qualifying for the program.

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  • What other places starting to test rape kits can learn from Ohio

    September 10, 2015 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    When processing rape kits, it may be faster and more cost-effective to extract DNA profiles rather than first screen swabs and undergarments for semen. Ohio’s crime lab, which has identified a potential suspect in nearly 40 percent of recent cases, has made this and other changes to its procedures.

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  • Preventing Crime for Pennies on the Dollar

    September 10, 2015 |

    Freakonomics |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Researchers set out to measure the efficacy of a program called Becoming a Man, which seems to be proving that, for all the billions of dollars spent on complicated anti-crime programs, something as simple and cheap as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy seems more effective in reducing crime (and, not unrelated, keeping teenagers in school).

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  • Teachers Wanted: Passion a Must, Patience Required, Pay Negligible

    September 09, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Across the country, an improving economy has pulled teachers and potential teachers away from the profession, creating a growing national shortage. Leaders at Elmhurst Community Prep managed not only to completely staff the school by early June, but to avoid taking on anyone who was not fully certified.

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  • Cats of the Urban Wild

    September 08, 2015 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City is home to an estimated tens of thousands of stray and feral cats, posing a problem for the city. To humanely handle this population concern, the city is using a method known as Trap-Neuter-Return (T.N.R.) that goes against the previous methods of euthanasia.

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  • How an unconventional principal used blended learning to help turn around a struggling urban school

    September 08, 2015 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Providence, Rhode Island

    Through effective leadership and blended traditional and online learning, a struggling school in Rhode Island improved student achievement, teacher satisfaction, technology upgrades, and parent involvement.

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  • Nigeria's polio endgame and a chance to improve struggling routine vaccination services

    September 03, 2015 |

    On Medicine |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    In light of a study published in BMC Medicine, authors Nancy Fullman and Alexandra Wollum take a deeper dive into Nigeria’s gains against polio and what they could mean for the country’s routine vaccine systems.

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