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Funded by Teagle Foundation, Comparative Assessment Project Demonstrates Enduring Power of a Core Curriculum

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01/26/2017

... Comparative Assessment Project Demonstrates Enduring Power of a Core Curriculum Based on hundreds of interviews with ... The Core experience, the data suggest, continues to deliver benefits...

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Proteus Fund Announces a New Funder Collaborative to Oppose the Use of Religious Exemptions to Undermine Fundamental Rights

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03/16/2017

Proteus Fund Announces a New Funder Collaborative to Oppose the Use of Religious Exemptions to Undermine Fundamental Rights The ... engaged in innovative and comprehensive public ...

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Carnegie Supports Report on Incentives to Attend Private Colleges

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04/14/2017

Carnegie Supports Report on Incentives to Attend Private Colleges States could save money and ... public colleges, comes at a time when a growing number of states are providing the opposite incentives. The report...

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Open Society Foundation Funds Program with Elmo And Big Bird Talking To Refugees

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05/09/2017

... Foundation Funds Program with Elmo And Big Bird Talking To Refugees Elmo and Big Bird have lots of experience teaching children everything from the ABCs to autism. Soon, they could be...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program

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08/28/2017

Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program One of the ... costs for hundreds of thousands of borrowers, according to a lawsuit filed...

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Russell Sage Foundation to Publish Book on Home Health Care Work: Shouldn’t It Be Work Worth Doing?

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08/29/2017

Russell Sage Foundation to Publish Book on Home Health Care Work: Shouldn’t It Be ... be a middle-aged immigrant woman, with maybe a high school education and little if any training, making $20,000 a year. .....

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Suspensions, Evaluations And The Absent Teacher Reserve: What A New Union Boss Has On His Mind

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08/31/2017

... principals have a nearly impossible job. Now, it’s up to him to help them get it done. This September, Cannizzaro will become president of the Council of School Supervisors...

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Health Care Reform Flatlined. But Lawmakers Aren’t Giving Up

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09/05/2017

... But Lawmakers Aren’t Giving Up Republican plans to replace Obamacare are fading fast, but that doesn't mean ... is done with health care. On Wednesday, the Senate Health, Education , Labor and Pensions...

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Smashing the Stigma: Deputy Mayor Richard Buery On ThriveNYC and Treating Mental Health

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09/08/2017

... Treating Mental Health ThriveNYC is a coordinated system of 54 initiatives, estimated to cost $850 million over four years. One in 5 New Yorkers in ... productivity losses every year. ThriveNYC is trying...

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Nonprofit Offers Guidance for Charities Worried About Deportation Raids

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09/11/2017

... Raids Increased efforts by federal immigration agents to deport undocumented immigrants have nonprofit officials ... that those clients may stop seeking services for fear of being swept up in a deportation...

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New York’s Most Controversial Teacher Certification Exam Is Now a Little Easier To Pass

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09/13/2017

... Teacher Certification Exam Is Now a Little Easier To Pass Just years after New York began requiring prospective ... teachers to pass a tough new exam, the state’s top education policy makers...

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New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent from Classrooms; Problem Is Three Times Worse in Traditional Schools

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09/20/2017

... in traditional district schools are three times as likely to be chronically absent from the classroom as those in ... year, a new research paper has found. In all, 28.3 percent of teachers in traditional...

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Buffalo School Administrators Get New Contract Amid Fiscal Warning

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09/21/2017

... for the cash-strapped school district. The Buffalo Board of Education Wednesday approved, 8-0, a three-year deal with the Buffalo Council of Supervisors and Administrators, the union...

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With A New School Year Underway, Hundreds of Teaching Positions Remain Unfilled In New York City

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09/26/2017

With A New School Year Underway, Hundreds of Teaching Positions Remain Unfilled In New York City ... and struggling schools that are typically the hardest to staff, according to postings on a...

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Minorities and Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows

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09/28/2017

... Americans who were left behind as the country pulled out of the Great Recession — African Americans, Hispanics and ... improvements didn't narrow the inequality gap: The share of U.S. income held by the...

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Economic Security

How a Quirky Art Prize Tied to the DeVos Family Went Political

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09/28/2017

How a Quirky Art Prize Tied to the DeVos Family Went Political Patricia Constantine thought hard about whether to use an image of the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, in her...

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Arts

School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students

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10/03/2017

... for Puerto Rican Students School districts from Florida to Massachusetts are anticipating an influx of Puerto Rican students displaced by Hurricane Maria and ... has experienced before,” Julia Keleher, Puerto...

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Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?

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10/04/2017

Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow? ... rise, to want to game the system,” said Phyllis Jordan of the Georgetown-based think...

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More Training Needed to Fill New York’s ‘Middle Skill Jobs

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10/13/2017

More Training Needed to Fill New York’s ‘Middle Skill Jobs It’s widely known ... paid to the workers in the middle – those who have some education or training beyond high school but have not...

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