NYTimes Editorial Focuses on Importance of 'Grit' in Learning
Release Date:
01/12/2015
... than intelligence when it comes to students’ success in school . But critics worry that the increasing focus on ...
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Prudential Names America's Top Youth Volunteers
Release Date:
05/05/2015
... in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). These National Honorees, named ... from a field of more than 33,000 middle level and high school youth volunteers nationwide...
OSF and Ford Help Address the 'Accountability Gap'
Release Date:
08/13/2015
The accountability gap is defined as the disconnect between what citizens expect and what governments do.
John A. Hartford Helps Expand Program to Support Older Hospitalized Adults
Release Date:
09/01/2015
... and professor of medicine in the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry geriatrics division, and ... professor of medicine and public policy at Alpert Medical School and the School...
09
Feb
2016
Campaign for Grade Level Reading: The Funder Action Series, Part 2 - Webinar
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
... The second webinar will cover: Community Solution Area: School Readiness Too many children start school already far behind their peers and never catch up. ... efforts to increase the number of children ready...
Carnegie, Helmsley Support Teacher Leadership Projects
Release Date:
05/03/2016
... of teaching in the classroom, in schools, and throughout school districts. The grants, financially supported by the ...
Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City
Release Date:
08/19/2016
... In New York City About 127,000 New York City public school students — or one in eight — have been homeless at some point in the last five school years, more than the total population of Boston and Seattle’s...
Schott Honors Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Kavitha Mediratta and Landmark Education Campaign at 25th Anniversary Awards Gala
Release Date:
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...
2017 Macy Faculty Scholars Named
Release Date:
06/27/2017
... PhD, NNP, FAAN — George Washington University School of Nursing Maja Djukic, PhD, RN — New York ... Medicine Jennifer Kesselheim, MD, MEd — Harvard Medical School Jeanette M. Tetrault, MD, FACP, FASAM — Yale...
Grant Supported Research: Self-Affirmation Intervention with Existing Institutional Channels Leads To Academic Success for Minority Students
Release Date:
06/28/2017
... Success for Minority Students Having minority middle school students write a series of self-affirmation exercises ... the odds that the students would pursue college tracks in school , according to Stanford...
Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... hundreds of millions of students are spending years in school while learning virtually nothing, and many countries ... both economists at the World Bank. “Even if they attend school , many leave without the...
Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... the fact that her children must work and have no time for school . In another family, a teenage son has now been out of school too long to be allowed back. He lives in a sort of limbo: no school...
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Working to Gather 20,000 Teen Opinions Across Western New York & Southeast Michigan
Release Date:
11/29/2018
... I live or work, one thing teens want when they are not in school is ...". Teen Opinions Count, the latest effort led by ... Nearly 35 Western New York and 15 Southeast Michigan school districts are...
Farhad Asghar Joins Carnegie Corporation of New York as Program Officer for Pathways to Postsecondary Success
Release Date:
11/29/2018
... Bank Street College, he taught in a Brooklyn public high school and was a staff member at a Queens based after- school organization. Farhad holds a Bachelor of Arts in ... a Masters in Public Administration...
National Service and Grassroots Youth Organizing Groups: A Strategy for Building Diverse Nonprofit and Civic Leadership for New York
Release Date:
01/14/2010
... analysis, and political engagement that lasts beyond high school . Youth organizing is a development model that provides ... youth (of color) around a host of issues from public school reform to environmental...
LaVerne Evans Srinivasan named Program Director for Teaching and Human Capital Management at Carnegie Corporation
Release Date:
03/25/2014
... Srinivasan will focus on improving how teachers and school leaders are recruited, prepared, and supported in an ... She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School .
She is currently Chair of the...
We Shouldn’t Be Batting 1000
Release Date:
03/07/2016
... 5’7”). He was baseball’s MVP in 2008, when he got a hit about 1 in 3 times he went to the plate. Here’s what ... One of the programs I ran was the Elementary and Secondary School Counseling program. When I...
Sample Job Descriptions: Chief Financial Officer / Director of Finance
Publication date:
11/2013
The following jobs descriptions for senior chief financial officer professionals were previously posted on PNY's Jobs Board. We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site.
Six Winners to Receive Help Setting Up Social Impact Bond Projects
Release Date:
06/12/2013
... Bond Technical Assistance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School have announced the six winners of a national ... Technical Assistance Lab (SIB Lab) at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) today announced the six...
13
Nov
2013
Where is Opportunity in America? - New York Index Launch
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 -
3:00pm to 6:00pm
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
... Index incorporates 16 indicators ranging from pre- school enrollment to high school graduation, from volunteerism to Internet access. Join ...