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The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times

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10/13/2015

The Century Foundation Report on For -Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times When the Obama administration agreed this ... for bankruptcy in the face of charges of widespread fraud,...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation-Sponsored Team Wins Competition

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04/12/2016

... the United States’ long-term fiscal and economic health in a competitive and educational campaign. .. Peter G. ...

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New York Community Trust Helps Mexican Students with Resident-Led Advocacy and Organizing

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04/28/2016

... Mexican Students with Resident-Led Advocacy and Organizing For over two decades, community organizing has been a central tool in the New York Community Trust’s strategy to improve the accessibility and quality...

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Wallace Foundation Hopes New Initiative Will Better Prepare Principals

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12/12/2016

... throughout the country to develop new training modules for secondary school principals. Officials with the ... changes to the way principals are trained, specifically in creating partnerships with local...

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Century Foundation's Richard Kahlenberg Writes About School Integration in The Atlantic

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04/06/2017

... Richard Kahlenberg Writes About School Integration in The Atlantic The decision by Donald Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, to kill Opening Doors was a ... diversity need to look beyond the federal...

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In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To Improving Local Schools

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09/18/2017

In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To ... of arthritis or numbness of neuropathy slow down her fight for Harlem’s public schools. Armed with a petition to demand that the education...

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Charter-School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at Symposium

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09/25/2017

... as scrappy upstarts with good ideas to shake up the U.S. education system one school at a time. But some backers of ... to bigger networks who sometimes attract headlines for allegedly harsh discipline...

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Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success

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09/27/2017

... how good a school is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the new federal education law (the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA) ... plans still need to be approved by the U.S. Department of ...

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Presidential Advisers on Black, Latino, and Asian Students Say Trump Admin. Ignoring Them

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10/03/2017

... commissions designed to expand educational opportunities for non-white students are set to expire Saturday and members ... advisory commissions on educational excellence for black, Hispanic, and Asian American...

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Success Academy Founder Eva Moskowitz: ‘We Are Making Progress, but It’s Frustratingly Slow’

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10/04/2017

... Success Academy founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz has more in common with her longtime foe New York Mayor Bill de Blasio than you might think, she told an audience in Washington Tuesday. “This may sound strange,...

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Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads

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10/06/2017

... a new twist: “If you give a woman a menstrual pad…” In all seriousness, the reproductive health of girls and ... more accessible hasn’t been a silver bullet solution for increasing education...

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Markle Foundation Selects Indiana as Next Skillful State

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10/12/2018

... the value of skills training when hiring employees for their facilities, rather than just simply looking for workers with a college degree. Skillful Indiana, which ... opportunities for...

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The Case for Using a Social Justice Lens in Grantmaking

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09/18/2012

... . Subsequently, the public foundations that comprised the Funding Exchange Network —the Tides Foundation ; women’s ... and LGBT funders such as the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice ; and the Black United...

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With Support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Plans Underway to Preserve Blue Mountain Wildlife Refuge

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11/26/2018

... Fund is making efforts to preserve more land in Northampton and Monroe counties. The fund has preserved 1,731 acres for the Cherry Valley Wildlife Refuge , so far, and it ... over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

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