VOICES FROM THE FIELD
Release Date:
04/16/2018
Movement leaders reflect on the work of social change.
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Bank of America Announces Support for Communities, Clients after Hurricane Michael
Release Date:
10/19/2018
The Bank of America Charitable foundation announced it is providing $500,000 in response to the impacts of Hurricane Michael.
Science Studies Get a Big Boost
Release Date:
03/10/2014
... highlighted several foundation efforts to support education in science, technology, engineering and math, ...
Russell Sage Foundation Calls for Articles on Women and the Economy
Release Date:
05/29/2014
... changes in women’s labor market outcomes including education , experience, occupations, and pay. The second ...
Unions, Reform Groups Gird for California-Inspired Lawsuit
Release Date:
06/17/2014
... v. California ruling, New York’s teachers unions and education reform groups are preparing to battle over expected ... laws and possibly many other teacher protections. Education reform groups like...
Covenant Foundation-Backed Study Examines the Health and Well-Being of Jewish Teen Girls
Release Date:
04/14/2015
... Health and Well-Being of Jewish Teen Girls When Jewish education promotes self-discovery, challenges traditional ... We wanted to offer a new teen-girl-centric model of Jewish education , one that meets their...
Arcus Foundation's Stryker and Johnson & Johnson Honored by GLSEN
Release Date:
05/26/2015
Arcus Foundation's Jon Stryker will receive the Visionary Award and Johnson & Johnson will receive the Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion Award.
The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times
Release Date:
10/13/2015
... for bankruptcy in the face of charges of widespread fraud, education officials promised to “protect students from ... and safeguard the interests of taxpayers.” But the Education Department, despite a...
Peter G. Peterson Foundation-Sponsored Team Wins Competition
Release Date:
04/12/2016
Up to Us, a non-partisan program sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative University and Net Impact, aims to empower students to raise awareness about the United States’ long-term fiscal and economic health in a...
New York Community Trust Helps Mexican Students with Resident-Led Advocacy and Organizing
Release Date:
04/28/2016
... to improve the accessibility and quality of public education in New York City. The Mexican American Student ... closely with its South Bronx and Mott Haven communities on education and immigrant issues,...
Mellon's Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth
Release Date:
09/23/2016
... is not keeping pace, according to a recent Excelencia in Education analysis of federal data. In 2013, Latinos made up 17 percent of all students in higher education , up from 11 percent in 2003. Yet the percent...
Wallace Foundation Hopes New Initiative Will Better Prepare Principals
Release Date:
12/12/2016
... universities to redesign teacher training, to revitalize education management degree programs to better reflect ... lawmakers for sustained or increasing support of secondary education ... Wallace Foundation...
JPMorgan Chase Announces $20M for New Skills for Youth Initiative
Release Date:
01/11/2017
... each winning state will work with government, business and education leaders to strengthen career education and create pathways to economic success. Delaware, ...
Century Foundation's Richard Kahlenberg Writes About School Integration in The Atlantic
Release Date:
04/06/2017
... in The Atlantic The decision by Donald Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, to kill Opening Doors was a ...
William T. Grant Foundation Appoints Kenji Hakuta and Mark Soler to Board of Trustees
Release Date:
07/12/2017
... the faculty at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education since 1989. His work is in the areas of ... Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education , a book on affirmative action in...
As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... down this year — despite backing by major for-profit education companies, Kaplan and the Apollo Education Group, the parent of the University of Phoenix. The ...
In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To Improving Local Schools
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... public schools. Armed with a petition to demand that the education department staff her neighborhood’s school with ... over crucial data that has been requested to help local education advocates make their...
Charter-School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at Symposium
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... as scrappy upstarts with good ideas to shake up the U.S. education system one school at a time. But some backers of ...
Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the new federal education law (the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA) ... plans still need to be approved by the U.S. Department of Education . . . Most States Plan To...
Presidential Advisers on Black, Latino, and Asian Students Say Trump Admin. Ignoring Them
Release Date:
10/03/2017
Three long-standing presidential commissions designed to expand educational opportunities for non-white students are set to expire Saturday and members say months of silence from the White House has them worried they’re about to be dissolved.