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  • Hope in coal country: Parents without diplomas keep their kids in school

    October 21, 2019 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Hyden, Kentucky

    In a former mining county in Kentucky, a high school principal is leveraging partnerships and raising expectations to both encourage students to complete high school and pursue college classes and to stay to work in the county. The school now boasts a 99 percent graduation rate and new programs to attract high-quality teachers.

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  • Escape to the country: India's villagers open doors to city tourists

    October 09, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: India, Purushwadi, Maharashtra

    A social enterprise based out of Mumbai, India helps connect urban dwellers with rural communities by creating tourism job opportunities for rural individuals, inviting people who live in the city to stay with and learn from their country counterparts. The organization works to stimulate rural economy, provide additional income for struggling families, and act as a bridge between rural and urban life in India.

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  • How a teacher program uses scholarships to bring educators to rural towns

    October 02, 2019 |

    Burlington Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Willow Springs, Missouri

    A scholarship program in Missouri encourages students to stay and teach in their hometowns or nearby areas. In return for funding for tuition, young teachers prepare to work in the rural schools that have faced challenges retaining a workforce in recent years.

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  • Immersion Program Seeks Next Generation Of Rural Doctors

    September 30, 2019 |

    Side Effects Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Sedalia, Missouri

    Rural areas are often underserved when it comes to medical access, but a town in Missouri is working on changing this by immersing medical students in rural life. Offering students a glimpse of small town life while working alongside local healthcare providers, the immersion program serves as a recruitment tool and is showing promise.

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  • Access to medical care is difficult for the rural uninsured. This clinic comes to them.

    September 16, 2019 |

    Chattanooga Times Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Knoxville, Tennessee

    The St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic is a mobile health clinic bringing care to uninsured, rural residents in Tennessee. The initiative has reached nearly 250 people since it started, providing care to six different towns once per month. With the costs of health care without insurance being enough to turn people away from seeking it, this clinic provides medical evaluations, medicine, and lab work – all with the hope of rebuilding trust between communities and the healthcare system.

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  • How a Vermont school is overcoming the declining enrollment trend that hurts rural towns

    August 27, 2019 |

    USA Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Tinmouth, Vermont

    In stark contrast to schools in the rest of the state, Tinmouth's elementary school population has increased by 30 percent in the past four years, helping to bring in and retain dedicated teachers. Tinmouth, which focuses on outdoor and project-based education and thoughtfully marketing its programs, offers lessons for other rural towns navigating population loss.

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  • How a North Dakota town embraced online learning to try to save its school

    August 22, 2019 |

    USA Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Wolford, North Dakota

    In response to a shortage of teachers, North Dakota's public schools are experimenting with online learning alternatives. "Rural areas have a chance that they’ve never had before," the executive director of the North Dakota Center for Distance Education said.

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  • How a 276-person town in Kansas is turning an empty school into a business incubator

    August 21, 2019 |

    Burlington Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Hanston, Kansas

    When the city of Hanston, Kansas had to shut down the local middle/high school, residents refused to let the school sit vacant; instead, the building now houses a town-owned business incubator called Elk Plaza. Uses of the transformed building include the town's only commercial kitchen and movie theatre, a flexible event space, and office space for local entrepreneurs.

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  • Overcoming an Epidemic: Opioids in Pennsylvania

    August 20, 2019 |

    WPSU |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Across Pennsylvania, researchers, medical professionals, communities, and local governments are taking steps to address the opioid crisis. The epidemic that has swept across the country is being addressed at every level, including individual, family, and community. Responses include destigmatizing efforts like the Share Your Opioid Story project, school-based prevention education, drug court programming, medication assisted treatment, and training and awareness initiatives for medical professionals in urban and rural areas.

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  • Post-Soviet Co-ops: Mongolian Herders Borrow a Tool From the Recent Past

    August 15, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

    Members of Post-Soviet Mongolian tribes return to a co-op way of life in order to survive - but this time, the co-ops are community run, rather than state-run. Because climate change has degraded the quality of soil and made it difficult for pasture-raised animals to survive, these tribes have banded together to manage pastureland more efficiently and sell their products, as a group, to national companies.

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