New Data Illuminates Long Island's Education Inequities
Release Date:
01/30/2015
... Racism last week in Melville. The forum brought together school administrators and education advocates and was the ...
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New JPB-Backed Collaborative Aims to Make Affordable Housing Healthier
Release Date:
05/21/2015
... Make Affordable Housing Healthier Co-founded by The New School 's Parsons School of Design, Healthy Building Network, Green Science .....
Fourth Annual Verizon Innovative App Challenge Seeks Problem Solving Ideas From Students Nationwide
Release Date:
08/17/2015
... no-coding-skills-needed contest that gives middle and high school students a chance to bring their problem-solving app ...
Prudential Seeks New York's Top Youth Volunteers of 2016
Release Date:
09/09/2015
... in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), was created in 1995 to recognize middle level and high school students for helping people in need, promoting health ...
The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times
Release Date:
10/13/2015
... former students at Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit school that filed for bankruptcy in the face of charges of ...
Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments On Colleges Still Giving Preference to Legacy Students
Release Date:
05/02/2016
... students who have some sort of family connection to the school with an advantage in the college admissions process. ...
United Way of New York City Helps Distribute More Than 100 Backpacks to Brownsville Students
Release Date:
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...
Edna McConnell Clark and Other Powerful Funders Stand Behind At-Risk Students
Release Date:
11/23/2016
Communities in Schools is a federated network of about 165 separate 501(c)(3) in 25 states and the District of Columbia.
New York City’s Top Science And Math Teachers Honored With Prestigious Sloan Awards
Release Date:
12/07/2016
... Each teacher will be awarded a prize of $5,000 and each school will receive $2,500 to strengthen their science or ...
ESSA Explained: Inside the New Federal K-12 Law
Release Date:
01/13/2017
The new Every Student Succeeds Act rolls back much of the federal government's big footprint in education policy, on everything from testing and teacher quality to low-performing schools. And it gives big new leeway to states in calling the shots.
Princeton Project Funded by Two PNY Members Reveals Insight into Behavior-Change Campaigns
Release Date:
01/20/2017
The William T. Grant Foundation's Scholars Program and the Russell Sage Foundation fund a project that asked students to report who they socialized with on a regular basis — both in person and online — and then used the data to identify the most...
After Cuts in Funding from DoE, Learning Leaders Shuts Down Despite Support from Funders Like NYCT, Pinkerton
Release Date:
02/17/2017
Learning Leaders, a nonprofit that trains volunteers to work in hundreds of low-income schools across the city, will shut down next month because of difficulty obtaining enough money from the city Department of Education, the organization announced...
Weinberg Foundation Launches Annual Community-Wide Book Drive Benefiting Baltimore Library Project
Release Date:
03/01/2017
... Drive in support of the Baltimore Elementary and Middle School Library Project. The Weinberg Foundation has ...
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Provides Support to Sheltering Arms to Open New Building to Serve Children and Families
Release Date:
08/25/2017
... Michelle Obama Academy (formerly D.H. Stanton Elementary School ). The new 26,600 square-foot building is set to open ...
As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check
Release Date:
08/28/2017
Successful schools, analysts say, will increasingly be the ones that expand their programs to suit the changing needs of employers.
Russell Sage Foundation to Publish Book on Home Health Care Work: Shouldn’t It Be Work Worth Doing?
Release Date:
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...
Eight Top 10 Lists From New York City’s 2017 State Test Scores
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Test scores in New York City continued their upward march this year, with small gains in average English and math scores — a cause for celebration among city officials.
Winning the Lottery: Enrolling in Success Academy Produces Math Gains for Students, New Study Shows
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... math compared to similar students who also applied to the school , but lost the lottery. In reading, the gains are ...
To Change The World, “Eat What You Buy, And Stop Buying More Than You’ll Eat”
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... and supporting student achievement, serving more than 60 school districts in California and Arizona. Jude is ...
‘I Consider Myself American.’ A New York City Dreamer Reflects on What Losing DACA Would Mean For Him
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... him with family and friends until he was in elementary school and they could afford to send for him. “My thought ...