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Open Society Foundation-funded Report Finds Bias Warps the Way African-American Girls are Treated at School

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11/06/2015

... Bias Warps the Way African-American Girls are Treated at School Our education system is a reflection of our ... and requiring social correction. These biases play out not only in discipline disparities...

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The Wallace Foundation Publishes New Report - How Can State Policy Support Local School Districts Develop Principal Pipelines?

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10/06/2021

... Publishes New Report - How Can State Policy Support Local School Districts Develop Principal Pipelines? In the United States, the work of developing and supporting a cadre of effective school...

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NY Women’s Foundation Points Out Gender Issues that Need Addressing in Rikers’ Reform

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05/11/2017

NY Women’s Foundation Points Out Gender Issues that Need Addressing in Rikers’ Reform With the welcome news that the jail complex on Rikers Island is now headed for eventual closure, ... served women so poorly...

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New National Standards for Principals Flow from Wallace Work

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12/10/2015

New National Standards for Principals Flow from Wallace Work Eight new standards for supervisors of school principals, covering topics such as instructional ... . New National Standards for Principals Flow from...

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Karen Davis Named to Lead Lipitz Center at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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12/03/2012

... of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Davis has been appointed the second ... to head the Lipitz Center and continue its important work on developing innovative health care...

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Unbound Philanthropy Survey Finds DACA Fee Increases Could Put Relief Out of Reach for Immigrant Youth

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10/27/2016

... Survey Finds DACA Fee Increases Could Put Relief Out of Reach for Immigrant Youth This week, the U.S. ... Survey Finds DACA Fee Increases Could Put Relief Out of Reach for Immigrant Youth ...

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Mellon Foundation Grant to USC Libraries and USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance to Support Digital Collection for Dance Heritage

Release Date:

06/08/2018

... Foundation Grant to USC Libraries and USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance to Support Digital Collection for Dance ... program area, the USC Libraries and the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance will create a new...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Works to Build a Better South Bronx

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07/10/2015

... a new network of connected open spaces that will improve quality of life and deliver measurable health benefits for ...

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Ford Foundation Works to Promote Government Action on Income Equality

Release Date:

11/18/2014

... portray people in poverty as victims, or feature complex systemic problems that seem almost unsolvable. These ...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Works to Preserve Scholarly Latin Texts

Release Date:

08/19/2015

... Latin Library project, which—when complete—will create resources that people of varying levels of interest and ... and launch of this Linked Open Data resource for providing resources and support of new...

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With A New School Year Underway, Hundreds of Teaching Positions Remain Unfilled In New York City

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09/26/2017

With A New School Year Underway, Hundreds of Teaching Positions Remain ... are missing teachers and support staff two weeks into the school year, with many of the openings in high-poverty ... and paraprofessionals...

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NY Rejects All Applications for New Charter Schools

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05/21/2015

... for New Charter Schools “We always look for quality and these applications didn’t measure up,” ... on how to improve their applications.” But charter- school advocates weren’t buying it, saying the rejection...

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A Toxic Chemical in Marine Ecosystems Turns Out to Play a Beneficial Role, Study Funded by Ford Foundation Finds

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07/22/2019

A Toxic Chemical in Marine Ecosystems Turns Out to Play a Beneficial Role, Study Funded by Ford ... previously... A Toxic Chemical in Marine Ecosystems Turns Out to Play a Beneficial Role, Study Funded by Ford ...

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New York Community Trust Supports Program to Educate Parents and Families About LGBTQ Issues

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02/01/2017

... to Educate Parents and Families About LGBTQ Issues By the time a homeless young person who identifies as lesbian, gay, ... They usually come as teenagers after they’ve been kicked out of their family home due...

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Farhad Asghar Joins Carnegie Corporation of New York as Program Officer for Pathways to Postsecondary Success

Release Date:

11/29/2018

... overseeing part of our education portfolio. Farhad’s work experience includes managing direct service programs , strategic partnerships, and fundraising initiatives ... Bank Street College, he taught in a...

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Simons Foundation Supports Research That Sheds New Light on RNA’s Journey Out of a Cell’s Nucleus

Release Date:

11/10/2016

... Supports Research That Sheds New Light on RNA’s Journey Out of a Cell’s Nucleus Cells secure DNA within their ... escape the nucleus in the form of RNA molecules. New work by a team of researchers based at The...

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Bloomberg's Investment in Renewable Energy Instrumental in Phase Out of the United States' 200th Coal Plant

Release Date:

07/16/2015

... Investment in Renewable Energy Instrumental in Phase Out of the United States' 200th Coal Plant Alliant Energy, a major Iowa utility, has committed to phase out coal use at six of its plants in the state...

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Support From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Continues College Access and Success Program of American Indian College Fund

Release Date:

05/02/2019

... to college within six months of graduation after high school is 70 percent. For Native American and Alaska Native ... W. Mellon Foundation, the College Fund will continue its work to increase college access...

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Pinkerton Foundation, Born of Detective Agency, Prefers to Work Unobserved

Release Date:

11/17/2016

Pinkerton Foundation, Born of Detective Agency, Prefers to Work Unobserved The Pinkerton Foundation, formed in 1966 by ... Pinkerton Foundation, Born of Detective Agency, Prefers to Work Unobserved ...

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Building Community Capacity for Participation in Evaluation: Why It Matters and What Works

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01/2013

... residents in evaluation and learning not only strengthens programs by enabling grantmakers to make more informed ...

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