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Dodge Foundation Suports NJ Schools Grants for Field Trips in Pilot Program

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03/14/2016

... Field Trips in Pilot Program The Community Foundation of New Jersey and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation are ... The 83 grants will make it possible for thousands of students in under-served communities this...

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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice

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07/15/2016

... In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice In 1962, 85 percent of white Americans told Gallup that black children had as good a chance as white kids of getting a good education . The next year, in...

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Century Foundation Report Praises Morris School Merger, As District Faces New Tests From Immigration

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12/13/2016

... Supreme Court ruling and an edict from New Jersey’s education commissioner to force the merger of Morristown and Morris Township schools in 1971. Yet the ... unrest and shifting demographics, to become an...

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PhilTV This Week: Feb. 3, 2017

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02/07/2017

... Parents and Families About LGBTQ Issues UJA-Federation of New York Convenes Panel on Growing Poverty on Long Island ...

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Backed by Henry Luce and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive

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02/28/2017

... Learning to Remain Competitive The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today released the final report and ... established to examine the current state of U.S. language education , to...

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The Henry Luce Foundation

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Schott Foundation's Jackson Declares "Our Nation Can No Longer Neglect Marginalized Students"

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04/26/2017

... Our children carry with them a whole identity inclusive of their varying home lives, community experiences, and rates of development. Yet in each system they encounter— education , community,...

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Editorial: Unemployment in Black and White

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08/30/2017

... the nation’s top colleges and universities is one sign of how little the country has managed to do to close racial ... rate for black Americans is generally about twice that of white Americans, a ratio that...

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Economic Security

With Trump Moving to End DACA, New York City Leaders Pledge Support for Students and Teachers

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09/06/2017

... were few answers as to the immediate effects the repeal of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals would have on the ... and students that schools are open to all regardless of immigration status — a...

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Immigration

A DeVos Speech on Title IX Heightens Advocates’ Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent

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09/07/2017

... Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent On Wednesday, the U.S. Education Department confirmed that the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, would appear at George ... efforts on mitigating campus sexual assault, a...

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Charter Schools Are Losing the Narrative But Winning the Data

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09/12/2017

... wrote a column in the New York Times summarizing evidence of the striking success public charter schools have had in ... comes from top academic researchers, studying a variety of places, including Washington...

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De Blasio Fails To Give Public School Teachers Maternity Leave

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09/13/2017

... Teachers Maternity Leave The New York City Department of Education (DOE) does not offer paid parental leave for ... the critical role a teacher plays in providing a quality education to our...

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In New Memoir, Eva Moskowitz Offers a Look Behind The Curtain At Success Academy — And Tries to Reshape Her Reputation

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09/18/2017

... — And Tries to Reshape Her Reputation For followers of the New York City education wars, Eva Moskowitz’s new book is a juicy ... hit it off personally,” the charter school leader writes of...

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Andrus Family Fund Appoints Edgar Villanueva to Its Board

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09/22/2017

... Family Fund appoints Edgar Villanueva, Vice President of Programs and Advocacy at the Schott Foundation for Public Education , to its board. For the first time in the history of ... at the...

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Rockefeller Supported Program Signs Up More Than 100 Schools To Teach Health Risks Of Climate Change

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09/26/2017

... Signs Up More Than 100 Schools To Teach Health Risks Of Climate Change The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) today announced that, since its launch ... health professionals are educated...

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No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. Will That Slow Its Momentum?

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10/06/2017

... states might use it as a launching pad to use measures of students’ social and emotional competencies to determine ... not a single state’s plan to comply with the federal education law—and its broader vision...

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Open Society Names Alethia E. Jones New Head of Fellowship Program

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12/05/2018

Open Society Names Alethia E. Jones New Head of Fellowship Program NEW YORK—The Open Society Foundations are pleased to announce the appointment of Alethia E. Jones as director of the Open...

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Salesforce Buys Its Own Philanthropic Unit Salesforce.Org For $300m

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04/16/2019

The deal, announced today, will see Salesforce.org transition from a California public benefit corporation to a business corporation, with the $300 million going to the Salesforce.com Foundation, an independent nonprofit organization that plans to...

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