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1. Here’s a real plan to beat ISIS and save Syria.
By Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan in the Daily Beast
2. Can building pizza ovens teach entrepreneurship and strengthen community?
By Sarah Anne Hughes in the Incline
3. What if random student drug testing only teaches kids how to avoid getting help?
By Jerry Otero in the Influence
4. This is why every California high schooler will soon take ethnic studies classes.
By Grace Hwang Lynch at PRI’s the World
5. Here’s how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft are teaming up to fight terrorism.
By Kia Kokalitcheva in Fortune
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