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  • The Secret Lives of Homeless Students

    Jessica Sutherland

    May 05, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Homeless and impoverished kids still have the chance to receive a college education, they just need to have the confidence that they can do so and a little pushing from outside forces. The author shares her own story of accomplishing just that.

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  • In sexual misconduct, data offer limited guidance

    Vivan Wang

    April 13, 2015 |

    Yale Daily News |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    As campuses across the country race to address a burgeoning nationwide conversation about sexual assault, policymakers, politicians, university counselors and students alike are faced with a lack of quantitative information. But Yale University has taken significant steps to collect and distribute information that may finally change the toxic culture of campus sexual assault.

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  • Teaching citizens how to shoot better video when they witness brutality

    Hari Sreenivasan Judy Woodruff

    April 10, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    With human injustices affecting people on the streets around the world, camera phones have become important tools to document crimes. However, the video may not adequately capture the crime to be persuasive in court. The global organization WITNESS has formed as Video As Evidence Program to instruct citizens how to best document crimes with their cameras so that the evidence will stand in court.

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  • One city's answer to the high two-year college dropout rate

    Lane Anderson

    April 09, 2015 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Yonkers, New York

    Yonkers Partners in Education offers free SAT test prep and college guidance counselors in Yonker's high schools. The program aims to increase college enrollment rates for low-income students who lack the same access to expensive tutors and courses as their afluent peers.

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  • Turning to Big, Big Data to See What Ails the World

    Tina Rosenberg

    April 09, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Public health, and large amounts of data behind it, is changing in today's world. The Global Burden of Disease Report, involving hundreds of scientists over the course of many years, aims to find out what makes humans sick and disabled.

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  • The irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous

    Gabrielle Glaser

    April 01, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Finland, Helsinki

    For decades, the only good option for alcoholics seeking recovery was an abstinence-based 12-step program called Alcoholics Anonymous. John David Sinclair, an American neuroscientist, has developed a new method, where an alcoholic takes naltrexone one hour before drinking. The naltrexone blocks the brain's opioid receptors and prevents an alcoholics strong synaptic reward response from occurring, which allows their craving for alcohol to eventually subside.

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  • Out of Debtors' Prison, With Law as the Key

    Tina Rosenberg

    March 27, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Norwalk, Ohio

    Rampant misconduct by judicial systems across the country brought to light a crippling practice of debtors' prisons—where disadvantaged individuals unable to pay fines and fees were continually and wrongfully imprisoned, creating a vicious cycle. The American Civil Liberties Union stepped in to work with governments and private companies to increase transparency, eliminate abuse, and reeducate law enforcement officials. The state of Ohio has emerged as a leader in reforming debtors' prisons, though there is still work to do.

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  • Did That Restaurant Pass Its Health Inspection? Now Yelp Will Tell You

    Poncie Rutsch

    March 27, 2015 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Yelp has partnered with city public health departments to display health inspection scores on a restaurants Yelp page. In this way, inspection information is more readily disseminated to consumers and diners can make better informed choices.

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  • New organ donation system all about heart

    Zhang Qian

    March 17, 2015 |

    Shanghai Daily |

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    Response Location: China

    Organ donation in China has become increasingly transparent in recent years, leading to an increase in the number of people agreeing to donate. Now that there is a transparent, national donation system this trend is expected to continue.

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  • Judging Schools Based on Inspections—Not Test Scores

    Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

    March 04, 2015 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    In England, schools are evaluated by actual visits to schools by a group of professional educators, rather than simply by test scores.

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