Education

The Century Foundation Releases Report on Charter Schools and District Integration

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09/16/2015

A new report, Charters without Borders: Using Inter-district Charter Schools as a Tool for Regional School Integration, outlines how charter schools can and should be part of the solution to addressing this issue of inter-district segregation.

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Eva Moskowitz, Practiced de Blasio foe, Weighs a Mayoral Challenge

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09/14/2015

Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz gives speech that mocked the mayor for his foreign travel, his opposition to charter schools, and his inability to deliver on core political promises, and signaled an admitted "interest" by Moskowitz in unseating de...

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William T. Grant-Funded Study Explores Effect of Financial Distress on Academically Prepared Minority Students

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09/10/2015

The study looked at more than 500 Black and Latino college students who entered college in the fall of 2013.

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Ford and Atlantic Back Education Policy Think Tank

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09/04/2015

Linda Darling-Hammond will lead the new program, which will employ 30 researchers.

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$2 Million Mellon Foundation Grant Supports Digital Humanities

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09/02/2015

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded the University of Pennsylvania a $2 million grant to support University initiatives in the digital humanities in both Penn Arts & Sciences and Penn Libraries.