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  • School districts think outside the cafeteria to get students meals amid pandemic

    November 09, 2020 |

    KVEO-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, McAllen, Texas

    School districts in the Rio Grande area of Texas are turning to alternatives to deliver meals to students who are remote-learning. Programs like school curbside pick-up, and meals on wheels, where a bus loaded has designated stops where families can pick up meals, have emerged. One district in the area delivers up to 6,000 meals to students.

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  • How California teachers are making bilingual education work online

    November 06, 2020 |

    EdSource |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    Teachers in some California dual-language classrooms are coming up with creative ways to help students practice and learn languages during remote-only learning. Across Fresno Unified School District, teachers develop and share lessons, record videos, and have students use educational programs like Flipgrid or Seesaw so students can record themselves speaking Spanish. During some Zoom breakout groups, teachers select a fluent language speaker in the group to model pronunciation for others.

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  • Australia has almost eliminated the coronavirus — by putting faith in science

    November 05, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Australia

    Although the goal was not to eradicate but to contain COVID-19, Australia is "close to eliminating community transmission of the coronavirus." Many factors played a role in the country's success but one of the most prominent tactics was to cede public communications health officials rather than government officials.

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  • For Virginia transit agency, electric buses help to meet climate, equity goals

    November 05, 2020 |

    Energy News Network |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Electric buses will be hitting Virginia’s busiest transit corridor as a result of the implementation of the Transportation and Climate Initiative. The plan aims to reduce carbon emissions, create a sustainable economy, and invest in underserved communities.

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  • 2020 is a curveball for civics. How Chicago classrooms are responding

    November 04, 2020 |

    Chalkbeat |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago-area high school teachers are approaching the mental-toll of election cycles on their students by rethinking curricula. Some teachers are approaching election anxiety by hosting empathetic dialogues by addressing students' anxieties and exploring their individual powers. Students also completed lessons that required them to have conversations with the adults in their lives regarding general voting information. Other educators are placing emphasis on exploring media literacy and understanding online propaganda with students.

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  • What the US can learn from how African countries handled Covid

    November 03, 2020 |

    CNN |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Senegal

    The death toll and infection rate from the coronavirus pandemic have been extravagant in the U.S., especially compared to that of other countries. The difference is largely explained in how different governments handled the early days of the pandemic. In many African nations – such as Senegal, which has been touted as having one of the best COVID-19 responses – "leadership, disaster preparedness, conformity to scientific advice, and coherence in pandemic response strategies" have played a significant role in the outcomes.

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  • How AI Can Help Save Forests

    November 03, 2020 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Sweden

    Satellite-based forest monitoring, paired with other sophisticated measures of a forest's health, is transforming the speed, precision, and economics of finding and eradicating infestations and pinpointing acreage where preventing wildfires and deforestation will prove most effective. Rather than rely on ground-based, manual surveys of vast tracts, forest managers are refining their ability to observe more useful data from space. As success stories pile up, however, the science still must rely on the political will to enact needed policies for a healthier climate and forests.

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  • How Norway Built an Economy That Puts People First

    November 03, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Norway

    Despite a nationwide months-long coronavirus lockdown in Norway, the economy was able to remain stable due to a "decades-long effort to create an equitable economy" that helped the government to enact a package that provided businesses and self-employed individuals' tax relief and deferrals. Although Norwegians pay roughly the same amount of taxes that Americans do, their taxes largely pay for social welfare programs which include unemployment benefits, retirement pay, and health care coverage. This "national ethos of economic equity" is what helped the country to navigate the pandemic.

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  • This Medical Team Is Working To Reach Those Most At Risk For COVID-19

    November 01, 2020 |

    Honolulu Civil Beat |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    A group of health care workers and social workers formed to help connect hard-to-reach communities in Hawaii to COVID-19 testing and information about the pandemic. So far, they have been able to test more than 200 people who were showing symptoms or who had been at high risk of exposure. The director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority has also reported that compliance with mask-wearing and other safety measures has increased since the effort began.

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  • Chennai Ran Out of Water — But That's Only Half the Story

    October 30, 2020 |

    bioGraphic |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: India, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

    The city of Chennai in India is engaging in wetlands restoration and stormwater management by using traditional knowledge and community action to reduce flooding and ensure that people have access to drinking water. Through a development program called Water as Leverage, they are implementing “slow water” projects that restore flow paths for water, which could provide greater water resiliency for humans and protect and restore natural ecosystems. While it can be difficult to get government engineers to embrace green solutions, public awareness of the environmental work is helping move the projects forward.

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