Here Are Mellon's Goals for Liberal Arts Education
Release Date:
09/13/2016
Readers of IP's higher education vertical know we've devoted a lot of ink to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "big vision" for the humanities.
Education
NY Community Trust Gives More than $800,000 to Bring Technology-Driven Learning to NYC Youth
Release Date:
09/12/2016
Several foundations are pooling resources to make 13 grants, totaling $835,600, to help young people use digital media to compose and record original music, advocate for immigrants' rights and school discipline reform, and produce documentary films.
Mellon Foundation Gives $1M to University of Michigan to Endow Postdoctoral Humanities Positions
Release Date:
09/12/2016
Additional funds were committed by the Rackham Graduate School to permanently secure these positions. In 2007, a $1.97 million gift from the Mellon Foundation funded these positions for six years.
New York City’s Universal Pre-K Program Wants to Teach Parents, Too
Release Date:
09/09/2016
This school year, the Department of Education and New York University will launch a new parenting program to help low-income families reinforce classroom lessons at home.
Atlantic Philanthropies' Mediratta Publishes New Book on Inequality in School Discipline
Release Date:
09/09/2016
Kavitha Mediratta, Chief Strategy Advisor for Equality Initiatives and Human Capital Development at The Atlantic Philanthropies, co-edits a new book that addresses the profound and life-altering consequences students face—especially young people of...
Rockefeller Foundation and New York City Join Forces to Fund Internships at Cultural Organizations
Release Date:
09/09/2016
The $1 million initiative, half financed by the city and the other half by the Rockefeller Foundation, will place City University of New York students as interns at places like Carnegie Hall, MoMA PS1 and the Museum of Natural History.
Sloan Foundation to Honor Recipients of Teaching Champion Awards
Release Date:
09/08/2016
Three recipients of the 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Teaching Champion Award– K-12 teachers in the New York metropolitan area who have successfully integrated economics and financial literacy education into everyday learning in their classrooms–...
Wallace Foundation Funds Research on Summer Academic Programs for Poor Children
Release Date:
09/07/2016
New research suggests that school districts can stave off the summer slide by offering free, voluntary programs that mix reading and math instruction with sailing, arts and crafts, and other summer staples.
UJA-Federation of New York's Supplies for Success Program Fills Backpacks in Time for Back-to-School
Release Date:
09/07/2016
About 200 volunteers of all ages came together last week through the UJA-Federation of New York's Supplies for Success program to fill backpacks with donated school supplies destined for local children in need of a hand to start the school year on a...
Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments on Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard
Release Date:
09/01/2016
In a perfect world, education experts would shrink class sizes and children would learn from multiple teachers.
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