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Century Foundation's Richard Kahlenberg Writes About School Integration in The Atlantic

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04/06/2017

... in The Atlantic The decision by Donald Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, to kill Opening Doors was a ...

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William T. Grant Foundation Appoints Kenji Hakuta and Mark Soler to Board of Trustees

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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...

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Children, Youth and Families

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

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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 ...

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Workforce Development

In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To Improving Local Schools

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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...

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Charter-School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at Symposium

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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 ...

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Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success

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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...

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Presidential Advisers on Black, Latino, and Asian Students Say Trump Admin. Ignoring Them

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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.

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Success Academy Founder Eva Moskowitz: ‘We Are Making Progress, but It’s Frustratingly Slow’

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10/04/2017

Success Academy founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz has more in common with her longtime foe New York Mayor Bill de Blasio than you might think, she told an audience in Washington Tuesday.

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Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads

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10/06/2017

... hasn’t been a silver bullet solution for increasing education rates in some developing countries. Researchers ...

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Century Foundation Study Reveals that Most Student Loan Fraud Claims Involve For-Profits

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11/09/2017

... an alarming picture of the state of for-profit higher education in America. The report comes as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos faces criticism for erasing ...

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Markle Foundation Selects Indiana as Next Skillful State

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10/12/2018

... opportunities for individuals with non-traditional education backgrounds, while helping residents tailor their ... developing a skills-based labor market through the state's education and workforce...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk

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09/21/2017

... announced it had reached a bipartisan agreement to extend funding for the national Children’s Health Insurance ... organizations, marked the first step toward renewing funding for the program, which provides...

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With Support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Plans Underway to Preserve Blue Mountain Wildlife Refuge

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11/26/2018

... over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for public use. Funding for the 2019 transfer is in place, according to Kyle ...

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The Case for Giving Cash to Poor Kids

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08/25/2014

The Century Foundation's Clio Chang writes that the implementation of child allowances could go a long way toward reducing child poverty rates in the United States.

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An Opportunity for Will: Announcing PNY’s Racial Equity Working Group

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12/01/2021

... and Co-create original programming for the funding community that centers equity and inclusion ...

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01 Nov 2023

Shifting to Build More Equitable Practices - From Grantmaking to Evaluation to Vendor Relationships

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2:00pm to 3:30pm

The act of shifting philanthropic practices resides across your entire organization. Join a panel of your peers who have been able to shift their way of working in order to build something new or open up a new possibility in their work. From...

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29 Sep 2015

Foundation Administrators Network Meeting: Pros & Cons of Performance Evaluations

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8:45am to 11:00am

... HR and operations professionals to share knowledge and resources , to test complex ideas with peers about ... Cell Foundation, Inc Oscar De La Cruz , Manager, Human Resources & Benefits, The Andrew W...

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Simons Foundation Announces First Pivot Fellowship Recipients

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09/07/2022

... the opportunity to apply for up to three years of research funding in the new discipline. “Scientists who move into ... as well as research, travel and professional development funding . In addition, mentors...

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