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New York City Wants To Know: How Effective Is Its Training For Pre-K Teachers?

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09/12/2017

New York City Wants To Know: How Effective Is Its Training For Pre-K Teachers? In New York City’s breakneck effort to offer free preschool to all 4-year olds, officials have ... About three years...

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12 Oct 2017

ESSA: How Much Will it Change School Testing, Equity, Diversity and Discipline Practices?

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... into law the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015 to replace its controversial predecessor the No Child Left ... This flexibility was seen as an opportunity for states to think past test scores and focus...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Access to Economic Opportunity for Delaware Students

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05/03/2018

Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Access to Economic Opportunity for Delaware Students Bloomberg ... Philanthropies has provided a $3.25 million grant to Delaware Pathways towards improving access to...

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Understanding Muslim America

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08/11/2011

... February 14th members briefing—sponsored by the Daphne Foundation , the New York Foundation , the North Star Fund, the Open Society ... Grants Program—provided our members with an opportunity to...

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Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety

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10/04/2017

... food safer. (With so many important executive matters to tend to , he can’t find time?) After just nine months of ... from almost every influential watchdog group — the Center for Science in...

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Food Systems

From India to Africa: A Quest to Learn about Reducing Food Loss

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01/15/2015

... Glin, Associate Director - Africa Region, The Rockefeller Foundation This piece originally appeared on the Rockefeller Foundation blog . As the global development community ... by the year 2050 —the need for...

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We Made a Comprehensive Investment in Board Service, and This Is What Happened

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04/20/2017

... Eckholdt, Executive Director of Credit Suisse Americas Foundation Over the last eight years our company and charitable foundation have made a major investment in the training and support of our colleagues with...

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A Recipe for Managing in Difficult Times

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05/14/2009

... I said then was that grantmakers and grantseekers needed to find ways to work together in lean times. No, I’m not ... Ms. Simmons served as the Program Director of the Norman Foundation and...

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Seth Pinsky Named New Chief Executive of the 92nd Street Y

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09/29/2019

... the Bloomberg administration’s economic development arm, to serve as its chief executive. Mr. Pinsky’s appointment comes as the cultural and community center embarks on an extensive update to...

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Unions, Reform Groups Gird for California-Inspired Lawsuit

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06/17/2014

... v. California ruling, New York’s teachers unions and education reform groups are preparing to battle over expected legal action seeking to change the state’s tenure laws and possibly many...

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

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04/28/2016

... central tool in the New York Community Trust’s strategy to improve the accessibility and quality of public education in New York City. The Mexican American Student ... issues, engages families through parent...

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Mellon's Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth

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09/23/2016

... into the professoriate is not keeping pace, according to a recent Excelencia in Education analysis of federal data. In 2013, Latinos made up ... that there is a growing deficit in the Latino student- ...

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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 Improving Local Schools In the eve of her 92nd birthday, Lottie Raukx wasn’t going to let the aches of arthritis or numbness of neuropathy slow ... public...

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

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09/25/2017

... view themselves as scrappy upstarts with good ideas to shake up the U.S. education system one school at a time. But some backers of the model say they have “lost the narrative” to bigger...

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

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10/03/2017

... Them Three long-standing presidential commissions designed to expand educational opportunities for non-white students are set to expire Saturday and members say months of silence from the White House has them...

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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

... of New York, around the country. I just think my solution to that problem, educationally, is a lot different,” she ...

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Google to Invest more than $1 Billion in Digital Literacy, Workforce Development

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10/13/2017

Google to Invest more than $1 Billion in Digital Literacy, Workforce ... more than $1 billion in funding for nonprofits that seek to close gaps in education and the labor market nationwide...

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Kiva City Launches in Washington, D.C.

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01/11/2013

Kiva, the Latino Economic Development Center and Capital One Bank have announced the launch of Kiva ... owners in the greater Washington, D.C., area with access to crowdfunded microloans. A new partnership between...

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Google Bows out of the “Bidding for Addicts” Business

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09/15/2017

... centers, from those sponsored by massive corporations to little fly-by-night endeavors. Many of them, to judge by recent research, are severely substandard. To compete with each other for the...

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