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The Cherokee Nation Infuses Cash Into Language Revitalization Efforts

Kristi Eaton

March 08, 2021 |

The Daily Yonder |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Cherokee Nation

Tribal members are being paid to learn the Cherokee language through the Master Apprentice Program. The $16 million effort to maintain a tie to the culture through language is being funded from the tribe’s casino revenues. Participation has increased since the inception of the initiative six years ago.

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This high school reopened two months ago, with no COVID-19 outbreaks. Here's how

Anita Chabria, Brian van der Brug

March 08, 2021 |

Los Angeles Times |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

Jesuit High School in Northern California has remained open in full for two months without encountering a single outbreak of Covid-19 amongst school attendants. While it hasn't been inexpensive, the parochial school routinely conducts districtwide on-site rapid coronavirus tests and attributes this protocol to the overall success.

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The Era of the Wood Skyscraper Is Arriving

Klaus Sieg

March 08, 2021 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

The Brock Commons Tallwood House in Canada was the tallest building made of wood when it opened in 2017. Now, thanks to government policies, scientific research, and hundreds of examples of proof-of-concept, more developers around the world are looking to construct buildings out of timber. Using timber is cheaper than cement, concrete, and steel and can actually store carbon emissions in its supports instead of releasing the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.

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How Giant Batteries Are Protecting The Most Vulnerable In Blackouts

Lauren Sommer

March 08, 2021 |

WBUR |

Radio |

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Response Location: United States

States are creating microgrids with the use of large batteries and solar panels in an effort to fortify their utilities infrastructure against extreme weather. Such investments enable communities to prevent prolonged blackouts and therefore stay safe during storms, wildfires, extreme cold, and whatever else climate change might cause in the future.

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The Fight to Change Social Studies in Nebraska

Leah Cates

March 08, 2021 |

The Reader |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Nebraska

Students and educators in Nebraska are driving the change to change history curriculum to reflect history that places more emphasis on the narratives on indigenous and marginalized peoples. Students are emphasizing of historically erased narratives by creating social media videos, as well as creating petitions to change curricula in English and history classes.

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How One School Is Using House Calls to Keep Kids Learning During the Pandemic

Jim Fields, Emmeline Zhao

March 08, 2021 |

The 74 |

Video |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

Every Wednesday, the Culture Team at Achievement Preparatory Academy in Washington, D.C. makes house calls to help battle chronic absenteeism. The team celebrates some students for improvements and perfect attendance, helps motivate others who are falling behind, and maintains contact with others who just need a little push.

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Freedom Fund: Bringing Justice to Incarcerated LGBTQ Individuals

Lukas Matuszewski

March 08, 2021 |

StreetWise |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

The 2020 social justice uprisings drew attention, and donations, to bail funds, which use donations to bail people out of jail while their criminal charges or immigration cases are pending. One fund that benefited from this trend is the LGBTQ Freedom Fund, which focuses its financial aid and related social and educational services on LGBTQ people, given their high risks for incarceration and mistreatment in the criminal justice system. Since its 2017 founding, the fund has helped post bail for people in 15 states and its fund has grown to several million dollars.

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How scientists scrambled to stop Donald Trump's EPA from wiping out climate data

Justine Calma

March 08, 2021 |

The Verge |

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Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, with the help of scientists, academics, and other volunteers, preserved EPA data and information that the Trump administration sought to erase. They held “guerrilla archiving” events to identify and save data, manually backing it up when necessary. They made data more accessible by creating congressional district “report cards” showing where environmental law violations occurred. To preserve institutional knowledge, they published interviews with 60 federal scientists who left the agency. In total, over 200 TB of data was archived in less than a year.

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With gun suicides on the rise, a rare hotline staffed by St. Louis teens saves lives

Kaitlin Washburn, Rachel D. Rice

March 07, 2021 |

The Kansas City Star |

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Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

Kids Under Twenty One has taken phone calls from thousands of St. Louis-area youth to its 24/7 crisis hotline and has educated many more students at 60 schools in four counties. Teens staff the hotline, a rarity. KUTO counters the myth that talking about teens' suicide risks encouraging suicides. Instead, education about mental health care and gun safety promotes intervention during critical moments and reduces the stigma associated with seeking help. Missouri's teen suicide rate is among the highest in the country, but the St. Louis area, where KUTO has worked for 20 years, is among the state's lowest.

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A High School in Ohio Is Giving Students a Choice: Keep Up With Remote Learning — Or You Have to Come Back to the Classroom

Patrick O'Donnell

March 07, 2021 |

The 74 |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

In order to address high rates of student absences, administrators at Shaw High School in East Cleveland had to make an extreme decision—bring all students back to the classroom two days a week amid the pandemic, unless they had attended 80% of classes and had a passing grade. So far, the administrators are seeing students' grades rising and the approach seems promising.

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