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College Activists March on the Cafeteria: What Do We Want? Hydroponic Cilantro!

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09/07/2017

... Cilantro! Students returning to the University of Texas at Austin this fall will have twice as much help wrestling ... with some of the big questions that college presents. For instance, does water contain...

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Food Systems

Reed: Dreamer Bill Could Be Part Of Broader Border Security Legislation

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09/13/2017

... Rep. Tom Reed said he’s in favor of a permanent solution for former Deferred Action of Childhood Arrival (DACA) ... recipients. He believes there is far-reaching support for legislation to help undocumented...

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Education Coalition Promises To Continue ‘Opt-Outs’

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09/14/2017

... boycotting New York’s standardized tests. NYS Allies for Public Education said the new standards do little to move ... curriculum throughout our entire pre-k to high school education system,” Jeanette...

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Experts Recommend Baseline Concussion Tests for Student Athletes

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09/19/2017

Experts Recommend Baseline Concussion Tests for Student Athletes Concussions among young people are seen ... experts say parents should get their children tested for brain injury before they even step on the field...

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More Than 1 Million People Uprooted From Their Homes By Lingering Violence In Kasai, DRC

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09/26/2017

... now severely food insecure and about 400,000 children are at risk of malnutrition. . . More Than 1 Million People ...

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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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Tow Foundation Funded News Integrity Initiative Awards $1.8 Million to Build Support for Quality Journalism

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10/04/2017

... Integrity Initiative Awards $1.8 Million to Build Support for Quality Journalism The News Integrity Initiative at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism announced $1.8 million in grants that...

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Communications/Media

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Century Foundation Fellow Addresses How this Higher Education Bill Will Only Increase Inequality

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12/12/2017

... Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto a bill that would allow students at for -profit colleges to get the same kind of tuition ... Cuomo's desk, doesn’t weed out the significant number of for -profit...

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In Response to TCF Lawsuit, DeVos Begins to Release ACICS and ABA Documents

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02/22/2018

... of regulatory noncompliance: the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) and the American ...

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Why Bloomberg Philanthropies Focuses on Teacher Salaries as A Key Component to Education Reform

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04/30/2018

... student achievement. When Bloomberg Philanthropies looks for school systems around the country to support, one of the ... teachers there made $31,000, with median pay at only $45,000...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Grants $1.25 million to Support Aging-in-Place Services

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07/23/2018

... today announced a gift of $1.25 million to Habitat for Humanity to support aging-in-place services for low-income older adults. Habitat will implement a program designed by Johns Hopkins School...

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05 Oct 2021

Making Up For Lost Time: How Funders Can Support Tutoring Interventions That Accelerate Learning

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 -

1:00pm to 3:00pm

... of disrupted learning, many students are entering this school year with significant gaps in core skills and ... in a way that can reach the students with the most need for these interventions. This session...

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EMpower - The Emerging Markets Foundation Announces New Grants in Emerging Market Countries

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01/13/2022

... internally. This fiscal year, EMpower has budgeted for significant growth in its global grantmaking to be able ... of the board approved grants that we are supporting: School of Hard Knocks (SoHK), South...

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07 May 2015

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution - Documentary Film Screening

Thursday, May 7, 2015 -

5:00pm to 8:30pm

In the 1960's, ready or not, change was coming to America. A new revolutionary culture was ... not only feasbible, but imminent. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short...

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Study Reveals The Hidden Lives of America’s Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford Foundations)

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01/06/2016

... It hardly bears repeating that there has been massive change in the factors that affect US household finances in ... are not trivial. Recent data show that wages are stagnant for a wide swath of earners,...

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Peterson Foundation and Ford Foundation Announce Grants for US 2050 Initiative

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08/21/2018

Peterson Foundation and Ford Foundation Announce Grants for US 2050 Initiative Today, the Peter G. Peterson ... and fiscal trends that will shape the nation at mid-century. In the coming decades, a...

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Supported in Part by the Rita Allen Foundation, Researchers Discover New Protein Factor That Contributes to Cancer Cell Migration

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11/01/2018

... expression patterns. These gene expression changes are key for quiescent cells to reenter the cell cycle and molecular changes in response to a wound are important for the role of fibroblasts in healing. When...

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Bank of America, Water.org Expand Partnership to Bring Safe Water to India and Brazil

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11/02/2018

... with safe water and sanitation, accelerating positive change in their homes and communities. Water.org received a ... with safe water and sanitation, accelerating positive change in their homes and communities...

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