Education

The William T. Grant Foundation has made $1.6 million in grants to improve the usefulness of research, $634,000 to support connections between education research and practice, and $205,000 to enhance the mentoring relationships of three foundation...

Two new high schools will open in 2015 in Prince George’s County, Md., as part of Carnegie Corporation of New York's Opportunity by Design initiative, an effort to assist immigrant students who often struggle to keep up academically with their peers.

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation recently approved $4.4 million in 90 grants to arts, education, environment and media nonprofit organizations throughout New Jersey.

An advocacy group that helped NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's push for expanded pre-kindergarten received its largest donations from unions, a political action committee and the Rockefeller Family Fund.