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Mellon Gives UPenn $5.1 Million to Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities

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02/04/2016

... Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities The University of Pennsylvania has announced a $5.1 million grant from the ... Minority Serving Institutions in Penn's Graduate School of...

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Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

... Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation) Schools and states have poured millions of dollars into overhauling teacher evaluation systems, .....

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Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks

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04/29/2016

... The Ford Foundation named Kathy Reich as director of a new foundation initiative to help strengthen ... serving as policy analyst and program officer for early education programs inCalifornia. Reich will guide...

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Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job

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09/11/2017

... the learning loss that often occurs when students are out of school for two months. It’s a serious problem. But ... slide without strong leadership. That’s now happening in New York. In July...

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43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says

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09/18/2017

43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, ... middle and high school students are not getting the sex education required by the state , according to a report released on Thursday...

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A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals

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09/27/2017

... guarantee loans to farmers, including owners of CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations). Animal ... They take advantage of taxpayer-funded research at state universities. Prison inmates...

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Food Systems

The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Study Shows Museum Field Trips Impact Learning

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09/28/2018

... to an art museum have a measurable impact on key aspects of student learning. The comprehensive study, conducted over a four-year period, involved more than 2,600 students in grades 4 through 6, and included...

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Philanthropy New York Announces Fundraising Breakthrough, New Philanthropy Center at Times Square

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10/20/2014

... Square Philanthropy New York, the “regional association of grantmakers with global impact,” announced today that ... 1500 Broadway ‐‐ and a breakthrough of over $2 million in early pledges to...

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Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen

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04/15/2015

Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen For more than a decade now, the United States has ... or whether civilians were among those killed. Now,...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace What are the top five challenges you face ... and Thomson Reuters Foundation bears this out. A survey of women from 19 G20 countries including...

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Century Foundation Report: Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance

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03/30/2016

Century Foundation Report: Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance Unemployment insurance (UI) is ... distress. But according to Speeding the Recovery of Unemployment Insurance, a new report by TCF senior...

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Economic Security

Hartford Foundation-Supported Survey Finds Most Doctors Ill-Equipped to Give End-of-Life Care

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04/15/2016

... Survey Finds Most Doctors Ill-Equipped to Give End- of -Life Care Nearly all doctors believe it’s important to talk with patients about the care they want in their final days. But most physicians work ...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Century Foundation Report Looks for Better Results for Remedial Students

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06/02/2016

... "When College Students Start Behind" offers a redesign of how community colleges should approach remedial courses. The authors state that to produce more college-ready students colleges ... interests...

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Simons Foundation Contributes to Research Outlining Cellular Communication Processes

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08/30/2016

... Processes Researchers have discovered a mechanism of intercellular communication that helps explain how ... hit a home run – function properly most of the time, and in some scenarios quite...

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'Dreamer’ Plan That Aided 800,000 Immigrants Is Threatened

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08/28/2017

... After graduating last year, Ms. Rojas, who grew up in Chicago, was hired by a utility company to help modernize ... electrical grid. But her life could soon be upended in a showdown over a five-year-old...

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Manhattan DA Lightens Marijuana Penalties in New Policy

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09/06/2017

Manhattan DA Lightens Marijuana Penalties in New Policy Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance announced ... Trump's immigration policies — specifically the use of courts to identify and deport undocumented...

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Reed: Dreamer Bill Could Be Part Of Broader Border Security Legislation

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09/13/2017

Reed: Dreamer Bill Could Be Part Of Broader Border Security Legislation Southern Tier Republican Rep. Tom Reed said he’s in favor of a permanent solution for former Deferred Action of...

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'Massive Anxiety' As Turkey Cracks Down On International NGOs

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10/02/2017

... Cracks Down On International NGOs Just before Ramadan in late spring 2017, the full might of the Turkish state descended on a foreign aid agency in the border town ...

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Can Redevelopment of the Bedford Union Armory Be Saved?

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10/04/2017

Can Redevelopment of the Bedford Union Armory Be Saved? A land use proposal to ... 138,000-square-foot, publicly-owned Bedford Union Armory in Crown Heights to create a mix of different types...

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