Education

As Schools Adopt Social-Emotional Programs, A New Guide Funded by the Wallace Foundation Offers Help

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05/17/2017

A new guide, Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out, published by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, aims to steer school districts through the thicket of social...

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Private Philanthropy Cannot Replace the NEH

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05/16/2017

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis on why the NEH remains unique in rallying private support, supporting rural and urban communities equitably, and bringing the humanities to the national forefront.

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HSBC Gives $1.5M to Scale Up Horizons Learning Programs

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05/16/2017

To bring educational support to low-income and underserved communities, HSBC will make a grant of $1.5 million to help bring Horizons multi-year learning programs to new communities and serve more low-income children across the country.

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Schott Honors Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Kavitha Mediratta and Landmark Education Campaign at 25th Anniversary Awards Gala

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05/12/2017

On May 11, 2017, the Schott Foundation for Public Education marked 25 years of fighting to end educational inequities in America’s public schools by honoring grassroots, community and philanthropy figures who have led the charge for education...

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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

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05/12/2017

Columbia University has announced a 15 million dollar gift from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation to endow a full-tuition scholarship program and clinical professorship and increase public service opportunities for deserving law school students.

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Carnegie Funded Commission Releases Report on Financial Aid & The Future of Undergraduate Education

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05/11/2017

The Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences released a new publication: Undergraduate Financial Aid in the United States , authored by Judith Scott-Clayton, associate professor of economics...

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Open Society Foundation Funds Program with Elmo And Big Bird Talking To Refugees

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05/09/2017

In partnership with the International Rescue Committee, Sesame Street characters will be bringing smiles — and education — to millions of refugee children forced from their homes in Syria, Iraq and other war-torn countries.

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Rockefeller Foundation Survey Reveals Insight into the College Skills Gap

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05/01/2017

A March 2017 survey by the Rockefeller Foundation noted that half of recent college graduates are not using skills they learned in college at work, and 86 percent are learning new skills outside of college.

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program

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04/27/2017

The program is designed to give select nursing and medical students exposure to strategies, skills and programs that are being successfully implemented in settings they are likely to encounter in the field.