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  • Ethnic studies classes in S.F. surprisingly successful

    January 13, 2016 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Stanford University researchers found that at-risk students who enrolled in a ninth-grade ethnic studies class saw significant improvements in performance and attendance compared to their peers who were not enrolled. Reporter Jill Tucker writes, "the academic benefits of the course were so significant, the researchers who conducted the Stanford study said they were shocked by their own findings." The research could have major implications for the education of San Francisco's predominantly non-white public school population.

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  • Saved from slavery, Nepali girls rebuilding their lives

    November 05, 2015 |

    Anadolu Agency |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nepal, Dang

    The Nepal Youth Foundation started a movement that from 1999 to 2015 had rescued 13,700 girls who were forced by their families into slavery, some as young as 6 years old. The Kamlaris, the Nepali term for female bonded laborers, came from indigenous Tharu families. Rented out to perform hard physical labor as servants for the country's wealthy, they were emancipated with their families' approval when the Foundation and other charities promised to financially support and educate the girls, and help them start businesses of their own. The campaign included a legal challenge that outlawed the practice in 2006.

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  • Housing deals boost Midtown's revival in Detroit

    November 01, 2015 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Five years ago, Detroit created a program called Live Midtown to encourage business growth and homeownership in the area. The aim of bringing more people to live in the neighborhood has been exceedingly successful, and data shows a racially and economically diverse group of people have moved to Midtown. The funders of housing incentives now need to decide whether they will continue to fund the program.

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  • Prison Without Punishment

    September 25, 2015 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Both incarceration and crime rates are low is Western Europe where the focus in prison is on rehabilitating prisoners so they can return to society. American leaders visited a prison in Germany to consider implementing certain aspects in the United States.

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  • How better seeds make Timor-Leste climate resilient

    September 12, 2015 |

    SciDev.Net |

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    Response Location: Timor-Leste

    A Ministry of Agriculture project called "Seeds of Life" grants local farmers genetically-solidified seeds in order to fight food insecurity in the country. The farmers will produce the crops and sell them back to both the Ministry and the community, thus expanding access to quality food and stimulating the local economy. Since the program has started, maize production has increased 50%, rice production increased 25%, and sweet potato production increased 65-130%.

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  • Financial Health

    September 02, 2015 |

    The Caravan |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Kenya has an alarmingly high rate of maternal mortality rate and many women are afraid to give birth at the hospital for fear of being treated violently. OparanyaCare uses financial incentives to get women to seek prenatal, childbirth, and antenatal care at the hospital with trained healthcare workers.

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  • What's Up With the Unionizing Trend in Digital Journalism?

    September 01, 2015 |

    The New Republic |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Responding to the volatility of the current job market and the potential for a bursting bubble, digital media employees are unionizing to protect themselves in the midst of ongoing change. While these efforts have protected some staff members, the preponderance of freelancers—and their lack of formal rights and union membership—has limited the impact of unionization.

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  • When a Boy's Life Is Worth More Than His Sister's

    July 30, 2015 |

    Foreign Policy |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    Due to patrilineality, sons are highly favored over daughters in many countries, with serious consequence. South Korea, the only country to have returned to normal sex ratios after having a highly abnormal ratio of boys:girls, has lessons for other countries.

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  • Reform in Costa Rica signals new strategy against lethal epidemic

    July 29, 2015 |

    Center for Public Integrity |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Costa Rica has instituted regulations to protect farm laborers from an increasing risk of kidney disease by mandating that employers in tropical conditions provide water, rest and shade, with higher levels of relief correlated to increasing temperatures. There has been surge in chronic kidney disease among agricultural workers along the Pacific Coast in Central America and in India and Sri Lanka and a recent study fund it's highest among workers laboring between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

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  • Under the Knife

    July 27, 2015 |

    Foreign Affairs |

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    Response Location: Iraq

    After pressure from activists, a slew of countries have passed laws that ban female genital mutilation, the practice of cutting of a girl’s external genitalia. However, in some places like the Iraqi Kurdistan region, the law was not enforced and was met with stiff opposition from religious leaders. “When it comes to FGM and child marriage, you’re changing perceptions so it takes a while, and these practices have been going on for generation after generation so it takes time to end them.”

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