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1. Quotas can cause lasting change. Rwanda’s new parliament is more than 60% female.
By Eleanor Whitehead in This Is Africa
2. With open communication and smart procedures, we can contain Ebola.
By Atul Gawande in The New Yorker
3. A simple plan to begin saving for college at kindergarten helps families thrive.
By Andrea Levere in the New York Times
4. Teach For America is sewing seeds for education reform in unlikely places – by design.
By Jackie Mader in Next City
5. How Bitcoin could save journalism and the arts.
By Walter Isaacson in Time
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