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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments On Colleges Still Giving Preference to Legacy Students

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05/02/2016

... students who have some sort of family connection to the school with an advantage in the college admissions process. Most schools that privilege these students ensure that each legacy ...

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United Way of New York City Helps Distribute More Than 100 Backpacks to Brownsville Students

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10/04/2016

... Way of New York City (UWNYC) to make this first day of school possible. Together, they distributed more than 100 backpacks covered in beloved heroes and brimming with school supplies to students at P.S. 156 in...

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New York City’s Top Science And Math Teachers Honored With Prestigious Sloan Awards

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12/07/2016

... and mathematics teachers in New York City public high schools who achieve superb outcomes and promote a love for ... Each teacher will be awarded a prize of $5,000 and each school will receive $2,500 to...

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ESSA Explained: Inside the New Federal K-12 Law

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01/13/2017

... from testing and teacher quality to low-performing schools . And it gives big new leeway to states in calling the ... unpacks the details of the new law and what it means for schools , educators, and students...

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After Cuts in Funding from DoE, Learning Leaders Shuts Down Despite Support from Funders Like NYCT, Pinkerton

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02/17/2017

... that trains volunteers to work in hundreds of low-income schools across the city, will shut down next month because of ... supporting family and community engagement in city schools , will close March 15. The...

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Weinberg Foundation Launches Annual Community-Wide Book Drive Benefiting Baltimore Library Project

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03/01/2017

... Drive in support of the Baltimore Elementary and Middle School Library Project. The Weinberg Foundation has ... to build or transform up to 24 Baltimore City Public Schools libraries in an effort to strengthen...

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Carnegie, Ford Give $1M to Free Legal Services Project for Immigrants

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03/27/2017

... that includes 182 advocacy organizations, 14 law schools , 21 law schools and 14 bar associations. In a partnership with the ...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Representatives Tour Renovated Labs at University of Miami

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03/31/2017

... of America recently toured the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Division of Neonatology, where unit ... Foundation were completed. Accompanied by Miller School and Department of Pediatrics...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Provides Support to Sheltering Arms to Open New Building to Serve Children and Families

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08/25/2017

... Michelle Obama Academy (formerly D.H. Stanton Elementary School ). The new 26,600 square-foot building is set to open ... years of age, and serve as a partner with Atlanta Public Schools to promote a direct...

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As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check

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08/28/2017

... Faces a Reality Check In the last five years, dozens of schools have popped up offering an unusual promise: Even ... boot-camp field now faces a sobering moment, as two large schools have announced plans to...

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Opinion: Vacant Lots And Properties Could House New York City’s Homeless

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08/29/2017

... People like Cecelia Grant, who spent her career as a school safety agent for New York City public schools , and is now living in a shelter. People like Jermain ...

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Russell Sage Foundation to Publish Book on Home Health Care Work: Shouldn’t It Be Work Worth Doing?

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08/29/2017

... to be a middle-aged immigrant woman, with maybe a high school education and little if any training, making $20,000 a ... of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management calculates...

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Eight Top 10 Lists From New York City’s 2017 State Test Scores

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08/29/2017

... math. In the lists below, we take a closer look at which schools had the largest and smallest shares of students ... two tests, meaning they scored 3 or 4. And we reveal which schools had the biggest positive...

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‘I Consider Myself American.’ A New York City Dreamer Reflects on What Losing DACA Would Mean For Him

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09/11/2017

... him with family and friends until he was in elementary school and they could afford to send for him. “My thought ...

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Teaching Sept. 11 To Students Who Were Born After The Attacks

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09/11/2017

... cry after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Yet America's schools — where collective memory is shaped — are now ... depth about the events of that fateful day in their high school social studies curriculum...

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New Pre-K Center Slated to Open on Upper East Side in 2019, Officials Say

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09/19/2017

... pre-K options, DNAinfo New York has learned. The new school , slated to open at 355 E. 76th St. between First and ... and the local community education council. On Friday, the School Construction Authority...

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Nearly Two Dozen Teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G

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09/25/2017

... officials killed an experimental pay program at the school . Highly qualified instructors at the public elementary school in Crown Heights were once paid up to $125,000 to ...

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More Training Needed to Fill New York’s ‘Middle Skill Jobs

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10/13/2017

... professional careers than their peers who only have a high school diploma. But less attention is paid to the workers in ... – those who have some education or training beyond high school but have not earned a...

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Ford Foundation to Support 'Student-Centered' Learning Systems

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10/26/2017

... that are launching the award—the Coalition for Community Schools , Communities in Schools , and StriveTogether... Ford Foundation to Support ...

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