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How Berlin is helping immigrants and trying to get residents to think differently about national identity

Marielle Segarra

June 29, 2015 |

WHYY |

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Response Location: Germany, Berlin, Berlin

28% of Berlin's population is foreign-born, with residents from more than 180 countries. Berlin is making efforts to incorporate these immigrants by providing them with legal support and employing them in city government.

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Why police don't pull guns in many countries

Sara Miller Llana

June 28, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Germany, Selm, North Rhine-Westphalia

More-rigorous police training, changing the way officers interact with residents, and requiring more education for cops has helped limit police shootings in Germany, Britain, Canada, and other nations. Their approaches may serve as a model the United States, which grapples with a number of police shootings that vastly and exponentially outnumber that of other industrialized countries.

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Detroit Team Shrinks Breastfeeding Disparities

Molly Ginty

June 22, 2015 |

Women's eNews |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

At St. John Hospital in Detroit, the principles of cultural sensitivity and collaboration—as well as lots of fundraising—have boosted previously low breastfeeding rates by black mothers.

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The Case Against Isolating English Learners

Mario Koran

June 22, 2015 |

Voice of San Diego |

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Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

School districts across the country struggle with helping their “English-learner” students learn English and academic content at the same time. Kearny High School in San Diego does not isolate these special students, instead using the school-within-a-school model to help place their non-English speakers in content areas that interest them. This model has shown to put the English learners at Kearny in the top API scores in the San Diego district.

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Pozor, uprchlíci

Tomáš Lindner

June 21, 2015 |

Respekt |

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Response Location: Germany, Geisenhausen, Bavaria

Česko odmítá uprchlické kvóty. Místní politici říkají, že společnost není na příchod a integraci utečenců připravená. Budují v lidech strach z toho, že migrace rozvátí zemi. Zcela odlišný obraz uprchlické krize nabízí sousední Bavorsko. Tato spolková země integrovala tisíce uprchlíků, kterým pomohla naučit se německy, najít si bydlení i najít a udržet si zaměstnání. Využívají k tomu dobrovolníky, kteří téměř po celém Bavorsku organizují vzdělávací a volnočasové aktivity.

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Watch Out for Refugees

Tomáš Lindner

June 21, 2015 |

Respekt |

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Response Location: Germany, Geisenhausen, Bavaria

Bavaria has integrated thousands of refugees into the public sphere by helping them learn German, find housing, and maintain employment through apprenticeship programs and other volunteer-run organizations in the community. Now, with Bavaria as an unlikely example, the Czech Republic looks to these program models in the wake of its own refugee crisis.

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Life on Parole

Matthew O'Neil

June 08, 2015 |

PBS Frontline |

Broadcast TV Programs |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Connecticut

Connecticut is attempting to reduce prison recidivism by changing parole practices. Changes to the system are allowing parole officers to foster relationships with parolees and counsel them as people, not as cases.

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The controversial method that helped turn one of America's most murderous cities into one of its safest

Terrence McCoy

June 01, 2015 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

The Office of Neighborhood Safety in Richmond, CA took a radical new approach to urban violence by creating mechanisms to financially stabilize perpetrators of violent acts in crime-ridden neighborhoods - essentially paying people not to kill. They have been dramatically successful at weening violent criminals off the destructive behavior by using a comprehensive approach that includes using solid data, employing mentors with similar backgrounds to the criminals, and monetary incentives.

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Why is India flipping over Ultimate Frisbee?

Ankita Rao

June 01, 2015 |

Quartz |

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Response Location: India, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Ultimate Frisbee is, in the Indian context, one of the few sports where men and women play on the same team, building gender equality through play.

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Wisconsin is learning how to die

Sarah Kliff

May 28, 2015 |

Vox |

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Response Location: United States, La Crosse, Wisconsin

Encouraging conversations with doctors about end-of-life care helps to normalize the process for patients, and ultimately helps to reduce medical costs. The Respecting Choices program developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, provides a model for doctors to follow in discussing end-of-life care with patients. Following the script helps patient’s engage in difficult conversations and allows doctors to make advanced planning a part of a patient’s medical record. Such planning also reduces end of life costs.

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