New York’s Most Controversial Teacher Certification Exam Is Now a Little Easier To Pass
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... teachers to pass a tough new exam, the state’s top education policy makers are lowering the score needed to ...
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New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent from Classrooms; Problem Is Three Times Worse in Traditional Schools
Release Date:
09/20/2017
New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent from Classrooms; Problem ... to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-leaning education -focused think tank, in a study on teacher ... include both sick and...
Buffalo School Administrators Get New Contract Amid Fiscal Warning
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... the cash-strapped school district. The Buffalo Board of Education Wednesday approved, 8-0, a three-year deal with the ...
More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog
Release Date:
09/21/2017
More Than Half of City's 1 .1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog More than half of the city’s 1 . 1 million public school students attend overcrowded ... group Class Size Matters...
Nearly Two Dozen Teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... Academy took pay cuts, some in the $50,000 range, after Education Department officials killed an experimental pay ...
How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... a family in the United States, regardless of income or education , has become yet another part of American life ...
Minorities and Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... inequality gap: The share of U.S. income held by the top 1 percent of households reached 24 percent in 2016, a record ...
How a Quirky Art Prize Tied to the DeVos Family Went Political
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... thought hard about whether to use an image of the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, in her entry to this ...
School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... has experienced before,” Julia Keleher, Puerto Rico’s education secretary, told staff members in a letter Friday. . ...
Kessler Foundation Awards Reeves-Reed Arboretum with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project
Release Date:
10/03/2017
The Kessler Foundation, of East Hanover, NJ, has just awarded Reeves-Reed Arboretum a grant for $8,000 towards the completion of the first phase of this ambitious project.
Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... absenteeism to measure schools under ESSA, the federal education law. “In that regard, I don’t think chronic ...
Study Finds Test-Score Growth at NYC Charter Schools Outpaces District Schools
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... schools. Released Wednesday by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, the study found ...
World Bank Withholds Myanmar Funding, but Some Call for Sanctions
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... to Myanmar and has “strengthened” its engagement in “ education , health services, electricity, rural roads and ...
More Training Needed to Fill New York’s ‘Middle Skill Jobs
Release Date:
10/13/2017
... paid to the workers in the middle – those who have some education or training beyond high school but have not earned ...
Ford Foundation to Support 'Student-Centered' Learning Systems
Release Date:
10/26/2017
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Ford Foundation are teaming up with three national organizations that promote whole-child initiatives for a new program that will award up to $150,000 each to 10 communities that propose new ideas for meeting...
The Simons Foundation Awards “Science Everywhere” Grants to Teachers
Release Date:
11/03/2017
As part of a campaign to bring science and math outside the classroom, The Simons Foundation and Overdeck Family Foundation join forces to award five teachers $5,000 each for innovative projects.
The Art for Justice Fund, in Partnership With Ford and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Announces First Grant Recipients
Release Date:
11/16/2017
... that seek to safely reduce prison populations, strengthen education and employment opportunities for formerly ...
Laura Landy, CEO and President of The Rippel Foundation Joins Grantmakers In Health Board of Directors
Release Date:
12/01/2017
... which helped address changing dynamics in health, higher education , finance, social services, and culture. Laura ...
Century Foundation Scholar Releases Report on The Future of Statewide College Promise Programs
Release Date:
03/07/2018
... running two different versions of a Promise program. 1 Of those sixteen states, ten have enacted and funded a ... decline in the percentage of state budgets going to higher education , 3 Promise programs are...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Program to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates for All Students
Release Date:
04/27/2018
... that have been historically disadvantaged in higher education . The grant will build on the successful programs ...