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With Wallace Foundation Support, New Study Finds Principal Development Pipelines Both Beneficial and Affordable

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07/10/2017

... to readers of IP that the Wallace Foundation believes in the importance of high-quality school principals. More than any K-12 funder in the country, Wallace places school leadership front and center of its...

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Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign

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07/11/2017

... is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign In honor of all that fathers do to help raise and nurture their children with autism - ... 20,000 individuals with autism, the study is falling...

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Rockefeller’s ‘Resilient Cities’ Noted in Article on Climate and Cities

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08/17/2017

Rockefeller’s ‘Resilient Cities’ Noted in Article on Climate and Cities In East Oakland, a few blocks from the home of the champion ... of race or class. "Resiliency is being coded as a way to do...

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Opinion: Learning from Harvey and Sandy

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08/30/2017

... Harvey and Sandy seemed far better than Hurricanes Katrina in New Orleans and Rita on the Gulf Coast of Texas and ... and bureaucracy; Harvey gives us an opportunity to do better. . . Opinion: Learning from...

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Editorial: Unemployment in Black and White

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08/30/2017

Editorial: Unemployment in Black and White The recent finding by The New York Times ... is one sign of how little the country has managed to do to close racial gaps. Unemployment rates among black ... of white...

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Should Kids Be Sedated for Dental Work?

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08/30/2017

Should Kids Be Sedated for Dental Work? In dental offices nationwide, children who need cavities ... a liquid sedative or inhale laughing gas and once it kicks in , they will be conscious but calmer, so the dentist...

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Mexican-Born Artist To Build Wall In New York Park

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09/06/2017

Mexican-Born Artist To Build Wall In New York Park At 7am on 7 September, a group of Mexican ... artist Bosco Sodi will start to build a 26-ft long wall in New York City’s Washington Square Park. Once finished...

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Success Academy Boss Eva Moskowitz and Charter Leaders Demand Answers on Space Requests from de Blasio

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09/07/2017

... de Blasio for failing to respond to requests for space in city school buildings. The school leaders said charter ... on responding to their requests, as he is required to do by law, for space in...

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Intragovernmental Collaborations: Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector?

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09/08/2017

... efforts among public sector leaders, those working with or in government know too well that such collaborations are rare. The motivation and ability to collaborate in government is usually lacking. So how did...

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Charter Schools Are Losing the Narrative But Winning the Data

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09/12/2017

... Data Several months ago, David Leonhardt wrote a column in the New York Times summarizing evidence of the striking success public charter schools have had in providing better educations for urban children. “...

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Prodded by Advocates, City Unveils District-Wide Integration Plan for Lower East Side

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09/13/2017

... plan that officials hope will spur more economic diversity in Lower East Side elementary schools. It is the first effort ... basis, and follows years of lobbying by parent advocates in District 1, which also...

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Russell Sage Foundation Quoted in Article on Men’s Salaries in Decline

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09/14/2017

Russell Sage Foundation Quoted in Article on Men’s Salaries in Decline American household income is rising, but it may ... of remunerative jobs that were once plentiful, such as in manufacturing...

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NYC Schools Are Inadequate on Sex Education, Stringer Says

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09/15/2017

... found that 88 percent of middle schools and high schools in the city do not have a licensed health education teacher – with most of them being middle schools. Also, in middle and high schools...

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Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job

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10/10/2017

... of 2008 has been one of the weakest on record, but never in postwar history has so little growth created so many jobs. The unemployment rate in the developed world is down to 5.5 percent and approaching .....

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Richard Thaler Wins Economics Nobel for Recognizing People Are Irrational

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10/10/2017

... fathers of behavioral economics, won the 2017 Nobel prize in economics for his influential work on how human nature ... toward decisions that were not the most advantageous in the long term. “ In...

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Universal Deduction Bill Draws Measured Praise

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10/13/2017

... be available to taxpayers who itemize as well as those who do not and merely take the standard deduction, currently ...

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President of Markle Foundation, Zoë Baird, on Gender Imbalance at WEF

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01/26/2018

... of elite politicians, central bankers and financiers in Davos, Switzerland. Most of the panels at the summit are ... and widespread revelations of harassment by powerful men in media, entertainment, government...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Community Art to Keep NYC on the Cultural Edge

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03/27/2018

... NYC on the Cultural Edge Scheduled to open at Hudson Yards in New York City in the spring of 2019, the Shed received a $75 million ... chairman and president, was instructed by Bloomberg to " do...

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Ford Foundation Partners with Other Funders to Increase Educational Attainment in the Rio Grande Valley

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05/03/2018

... with Other Funders to Increase Educational Attainment in the Rio Grande Valley RGV FOCUS leaders recently unveiled ... Valley students now match or outperform their Texas peers in nine out of 11 key indicators...

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