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With utilities fixed, focus shifts to childcare needs in wake of Alaska earthquake

4 December 2018 Anne Hillman, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Anchorage, children, disasters, earthquake, schools

Most city services are getting back to normal in Anchorage, southcentral Alaska after Friday’s major earthquake. Utilities like electricity, water,

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Finnish city of Turku takes €100m loan to fix schools, but worries about mounting debt

7 November 20187 November 2018 Yle News 0 Comments budget, finances, Infrastructure, schools, Turku

Turku city leaders are planning to take on more debt to finance investments in schools. According to a budget proposal

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Inequality a problem in Swedish schools: UNICEF report

30 October 20182 November 2018 Radio Sweden 0 Comments children, education, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), schools, UNICEF

A UNICEF report on equality in schools holds that Sweden is doing worse than its Nordic neighbours. The survey of

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Lack of teachers causes school year delays in Northern Canadian territory

21 August 201821 August 2018 Michelle Pucci, CBC News 0 Comments Baffin Island, education, employment, Igloolik, Nunavut, schools, teachers

A teacher shortage has meant classes in at least one community in Nunavut (east-Canadian Arctic) have seen the start of

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Countries ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured General USA 

Northwest Arctic officials move ahead on new school for climate-threatened village

16 January 2017 Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments climate, education, Kivalina, Northwest Arctic Borough, schools

The Northwest Arctic Borough Assembly held an unprecedented meeting 2,000 miles away in Seattle last month, where it narrowly shot

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Countries Featured General Society SOCIETY USA 

Alaska’s heroin problem brings together state, local and federal leaders in search of a solution

21 September 2016 Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments doctors, drugs, health, law, police, schools

BETHEL — Alaska’s heroin problem is significant, growing and, authorities say, in need of attention from all quarters to get under

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Canada Countries Featured General SOCIETY Society SPECIAL FEATURES 

New tool tranlsates Inuit syllabics into Latin alphabet

6 November 201519 March 2018 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments culture, education, history, Language, politics, schools, syllabics

A Canadian technology company has created a Google extension that will allow people to convert Inuit language syllabics into Roman

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Oil & gas industry messages Alaska students

30 October 20155 January 2016 Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments business, education, politics, schools

With talk of taxes on the rise and Alaska struggling with massive deficits, an oil and gas trade association representing some

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Countries Featured General SOCIETY Society Sweden 

Sweden to expand teaching of minority languages

2 April 20157 April 2015 Radio Sweden 0 Comments Arctic, education, Finnish, linguistics, Meänkieli, Romani Chib, Saami, Sami, schools, Skolverket, Yiddish

The Swedish National Agency for Education, or Skolverket, is to expand the teaching of Sweden’s five national minority languages (Yiddish, Finnish,

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University of Alaska plans big push to increase, retain homegrown teachers

2 February 20152 February 2015 Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments aboriginal, education, indigenous, schools, students, teaching

For decades, teacher Arnold Marks has called the small Interior Alaska village of Tanana, about 130 air miles west of

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Anastasia Titova, Anastasia Tuulos and Anastasia Pilija from the Finno-Ugric School in Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia. (Pertti Huotari / Yle)
Featured Finland General SOCIETY Society 

Finland appreciated in Karelia despite sanctions, interviews show

24 November 201425 November 2014 Yle News 0 Comments EU, politics, Russia, Sanctions, schools

The tightening sanctions measures affecting Russian-Finnish relations have had minimal impact on Karelian Russians, according to interviews with citizens of

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A new study suggests teachers in rural/remote communities worked an average of five hours more per week than their urban counterparts. (iStock)
Canada Featured SOCIETY Society 

Teachers in remote northern communities face higher workloads says Canadian study

10 April 2014 CBC News 0 Comments Arctic, education, schools, work

A new report on teachers’ workloads across Canada’s North says those working at rural or remote schools are at the

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The flag of Canada's northwestern Yukon territory. A researcher says that Yukon spent over $21,000 per student from 2009-2011. In the southern Canadian province of British Columbia, it was less than $12,000. (iStock)
Canada Featured SOCIETY Society 

Education spending in Canada’s North out of hand: prof

17 March 2014 CBC News 0 Comments Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Rodney Clifton, schools, Yukon

A retired university professor from  Canada’s University of Manitoba says education spending in the North has gotten out of hand.

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The hamlet of Kugluktuk, Nunavut recently bought a handheld radar gun to catch speeding snowmobilers. (CBC.ca)
Canada SOCIETY Society 

Arctic Canadian town hopes radar gun will stop speeding snowmobilers

2 January 2014 CBC News 0 Comments children, Inuit, parents, schools, speeding, transportation

Kugluktuk, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, is cracking down on speeding snowmobilers after complaints from residents

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Sunrise in Kugluktuk, Nunavut. The hamlet's emergency siren now sounds at 8:30 a.m. every school day to get the kids out of bed and into class. (Peter Kakolak)
Canada Featured SOCIETY Society SPECIAL FEATURES 

Tardy students? Arctic Canadian town turns to emergency alarm

27 December 2013 CBC News 0 Comments education, Inuit, Nunavut, schools

Normally used to alert the hamlet to an emergency, the siren in Kugluktuk, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory

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