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Welcome to a curated database of rigorous reporting on responses to social problems.

15,700 stories produced by 8,900 journalists and 2,000 news outlets from 89 countries. The stories cover responses in 192 countries, in 17 languages. This resource is made possible because of a growing movement of journalists who use solutions journalism to illuminate both problems and evidence-based responses to them.

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  • Putting students in charge to close the achievement gap

    Emily Richmond
    2016-07-08 12:57:42 UTC
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    October 24, 2014 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsfield, New Hampshire

    Students take responsibility for their own learning at Pittsfield Middle High School, where student-centered learning puts them in charge of leading discussions, creating group work goals and individual learning projects.

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  • A Creative Way to Educate Low-Income Students

    Deborah Fallows
    2019-11-03 18:23:03 UTC
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    October 16, 2014 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    In Columbus, Ohio, a high school is pooling vouchers, donations, and earnings from its work study program to reach some of the city's students living below the poverty line.

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  • Seattle's Garfield High wants hazing to be history

    Claudia Rowe
    2015-10-15 18:23:15 UTC
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    August 26, 2014 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Incoming students are more likely to submit to hazing if they fear being ostracized. Link Crew is a national program that teaches upperclassman during the summer to connect with freshman throughout the year, changing the social culture of a school.

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  • Newark's jobs training is a model for Buffalo schools

    Tiffany Lankes
    2016-02-05 22:57:47 UTC
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    August 17, 2014 |

    The Buffalo News |

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    Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

    Across the country, educators increasingly look to vocational programs to better prepare students for the 21st-century workforce. Newark, New Jersey is spearheading a program of vocational education.

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  • Brooklyn's Prospect Heights offers a model for teaching immigrants

    Sandra Tan
    2016-02-05 22:50:25 UTC
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    July 13, 2014 |

    The Buffalo News |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Schools with high percentages of immigrants and refugees face the particularly difficult challenges of language acquisition and cultural integration. One Brooklyn school succeeds by having students teach one another and incorporating English language lessons into every class.

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  • How Bronx's Eagle Academy helps inner-city kids soar

    Tiffany Lankes
    2016-02-06 20:07:12 UTC
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    June 22, 2014 |

    The Buffalo News |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Eagle Academy in the Bronx combines rigorous academics, high expectations, and a structured environment to help minority students succeed.

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  • Eagle Academy inspires Buffalo's chapter of 100 Black Men

    Tiffany Lankes
    2016-02-05 22:53:09 UTC
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    June 22, 2014 |

    The Buffalo News |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Eagle academies are part of a network of schools in New York City and Newark that are devoted to educating at-risk boys from the inner city by providing them with mentors.

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  • A Pennsylvania district takes on cyber charters

    Sarah Garland
    2016-02-04 14:47:31 UTC
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    May 13, 2014 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Quakertown, Pennsylvania

    The small rural school district of Quakertown in Bucks County has become a national model for how to use technology to transform the public school experience. The majority of students in the district take at least one class online and all ninth graders are given laptops they can take to college when they graduate.

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  • MPS looks to Oakland model to work differently with African-American boys

    Beth Hawkins
    2015-10-15 18:23:06 UTC
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    May 05, 2014 |

    MinnPost |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    African American boys were being treated less-than-equally by the Oakland Unified School District – a change of culture was implemented and the playing field leveled. Now, Minnesota is looking to adopt the same system that was started in Oakland by creating schools that are exclusively for African American males in hopes to help them reach higher standards of achievement.

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  • High School in Southern Georgia: What ‘Career Technical' Education Looks Like

    James Fallows
    2019-11-19 04:01:35 UTC
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    March 27, 2014 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Marys, Georgia

    A high school in Southern Georgia addresses their dismal graduation rates by adopting a "career technical" approach to teaching that offers students a choice of five career path "academies." Once a student is enrolled in their academy, they learn practical skills required of that career path - along with typical high school requirements. Since implementation of this teaching style, the graduation rate has increased by nearly 35%.

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Solutions Story Tracker® FAQ

  • Solutions journalism…
    • Describes a response to a problem and how it works.
    • Seeks to draw out insights that explain success or failure.
    • Presents the available evidence about the effectiveness of a response.
    • Explains the shortcomings or limitations of the response.
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  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, searchable database of solutions journalism stories — rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. We vet and tag every story in the Story Tracker, which offers an inspiring and useful collection of the thousands of ways people are working to solve problems around the world.

  • You can learn more about how we source, vet, and tag stories here, as well as how we share them. We also have video tutorials in Spanish and French that show how to use the Solutions Story Tracker to find what you need.

  • Story collections are curated by our staff or other partners to explore a theme, pattern, or trend via selected solutions stories and external resources. Some story collections focus on an in-depth exploration of a topic with solutions journalism; others highlight journalists and how they report on topics. Certain story collections include discussion questions and notes, so that educators and community discussion leaders can lead learners to fully engage with the stories.

  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is powered by user submissions. We encourage submissions from journalists, as well as from anyone who has an eye for solutions journalism. Click here to submit. (Why submit? So many reasons!)

  • You can submit a story directly on the Solutions Story Tracker®. You will be prompted to register or log into the Solutions Journalism Network website, if you are already logged in. (It is free to register!) Logging in allows you to track the status of your submissions under My Profile, as well as save your favorite stories, create story collections and story alerts, and access other helpful features of our website.

  • After you submit a story to us and assign it a topic, it is sent to one of our Solutions Story Tracker team members. Our team member evaluates the story for the four qualities of solutions journalism, and on the basics: The story must come from a news outlet and have a date and a byline. If the story meets our criteria, our team tags it accordingly and adds it to the database. If the story falls short of the mark, our team will include the reason why. We include stories in the Story Tracker that meet our standards of solutions journalism. Inclusion does not mean we support the initiatives, policies, organizations or approaches featured in those stories.

    Discover common reasons why a story may miss the mark for inclusion in the Solutions Story Tracker®.

    Learn more about the history of the database.

  • Solutions Journalism Network features these stories in the searchable database making them publicly accessible to anyone who wants to search for rigorous reporting on solutions to social problems. Any story that is added has the potential to make more impact than its original purpose. Added stories are used in journalism trainings, school curricula, research projects, and independent analysis on issue area trends. This now includes artificial intelligence tools, which are applied for educational value to find stories and support story vetting, as well as to extract insights from the stories. SJN has digital products and newsletters that give new life and exposure to the stories meeting people where they are at. Story data also is used to develop innovative tools to reach the general public with solutions journalism as well as some specific research projects requested by researchers. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of story data or added stories, please contact Lita Tirak.

  • News outlets determine whether all users can access their stories — and some limit the number of stories that anyone can view, or require a subscription. The majority of stories in the database can be accessed for free.

  • We work with journalists, academic researchers and others who feel that our database will support their research. We are especially interested in research that seeks to develop new insights about solutions journalism and its spread and its impact on social problems. Please complete all sections of the Data Request Form, and we will contact you to discuss your request in greater detail.

  • We do not fact-check the stories in the Solutions Story Tracker®. We do ensure that each story comes from a credible news source that has its own editorial infrastructure.

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