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  • Make Way for the ‘One-Minute City'

    January 05, 2021 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    The Street Moves initiative in Sweden is pushing local communities to become the designers of their own streets’ layouts and look at urban planning through the lens of the “one-minute city.” Through a public-private partnership, residents in four sites in Stockholm can help determine how much street space is used for parking, outdoor dining, and children’s play spaces. The goal is to increase participation in the community, address climate resilience, and create a more livable city.

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  • What the San Francisco Bay Area Can Teach Us About Fighting a Pandemic

    January 04, 2021 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The San Francisco Bay Area has had fewer COVID-19 deaths than would be expected for such a densely populated area, largely by "drawing on resources and expertise that predated the coronavirus pandemic." Unlike other large cities, the Bay Area was able to quickly identify where hotspots may emerge, and initiate changes – such as allowing only one entrance to hospitals and not using traveling certified nursing assistants in multiple nursing homes. City health officials also increased outreach to at-risk minority neighborhoods, after seeing the virus disproportionately impacting these communities elsewhere.

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  • These nursing homes kept Covid-19 out for 7 months. Here's what caregivers learned

    January 04, 2021 |

    The Buffalo News |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    A handful of nursing homes in New York have been able to avoid an onslaught of COVID-19 cases by focusing on education and training of the staff and keeping their workforce stable and well-supplied. While these methods aren't silver bullets, the "culture of shared accountability and caring” has been crucial to the positive outcome thus far.

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  • California schools build local wireless networks to bridge digital divide

    January 04, 2021 |

    EdSource |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    School districts and cities in California are looking to create their own local Wifi networks as a long-term solution to the digital divide, and an alternative to hotspots. Some are even becoming internet service providers themselves (ISP) — efforts, they say, that will make it easier to provide internet access to those who can’t afford it.

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  • Teachers on TV? Schools Try Creative Strategy to Narrow Digital Divide

    January 03, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    “Let’s Learn NYC!” Is the New York City Public School System's answer to teaching students via television. The program is one of many around the country, which began at a FOX station in Houston. Through the program, students are able to watch science, math, and even dance lessons. The program has been scaled and adapted to a variety of large cities like San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, and others.

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  • Foundation offers tutoring opportunities to inner-city youth

    December 31, 2020 |

    Los Angeles Wave |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Ed Center provides tutoring assistance to children from fourth through the 12th grades in South Los Angeles. The center makes tutoring as financially accessible as possible by charging $6.25 for two hours of tutoring and provides full or partial scholarships for families. University students volunteer as tutors The center has helped close to 500 students pursue higher education.

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  • How a German organisation tackles anti-Semitism in schools

    December 31, 2020 |

    The Caravan |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Meet A Jew is a volunteer organization in Germany helping combat anti-semitism and bigotry by educating students in elementary and secondary schools about Jewish culture and traditions of those living in Germany. The organization has about three hundred volunteers from a variety of different backgrounds, who then hold 90-minute sessions where students are welcomed to ask anything.

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  • How a program in Bangladesh is preparing garment workers for college

    December 31, 2020 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Pathways to Promise is a program helping garment workers in Bangladesh, mostly women and young girls, overcome financial obstacles when pursuing higher education. Pathways, which was started in 2016, helps offset salary loss for enrolled garment worker's, whose families depended on to survive, by providing a stipend. While enrolled, students receive academic preparation, and tutoring, to make it easier for them to transition into college. Since the program's inception, 470 students have enrolled and 25 graduated from its first cohort.

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  • While many colleges are making big cuts during the pandemic, a few opt for permanent transformation

    December 30, 2020 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Unity, Maine

    Across the U.S. many colleges and universities adapted their courses and curriculum to meet Covid safety guidelines, but many are seeing the pandemic as a catalyst for the necessary innovation, acceleration, and changes. Unity College in Maine is shifting the traditional semester system into eight, five-week terms both online and in-person, at a much lower price for students. Over in Colorado, Metropolitan State University pivoted its approach by creating a free program to retrain people who lost jobs due to the pandemic.

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  • Colombia's sustainable forestry drive boosts biodiversity and business

    December 30, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Tarapacá

    The Colombian government has been working with regional regulatory agencies, the World Wildlife Fund, and local forest communities to encourage sustainable timber production and the implementation of forest management plans. They launched the Legal Wood Pact — a commitment with 69 entities to exclusively use wood from legal sources. While it can be difficult to convince people to purchase sustainable timber that’s more expensive, the sales of legal timber in the country increased from $500,000 in 2011 to $13 million in 2018.

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