Ford and Open Society Foundations Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row
Release Date:
08/16/2016
... On Death Row In 1989, a 29-year-old African-American civil- rights lawyer named Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, ...
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Russell Sage Foundation Papers Help Explain the Growing Wage Gap
Release Date:
08/22/2016
A new essay from researchers Martha J. Bailey and Thomas A. DiPrete, which is part of a newly released collection of papers from the Russell Sage Foundation, helps to explain why women are no longer catching up to men when it comes to pay.
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.
Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women
Release Date:
05/04/2017
... organization dedicated to securing and protecting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in ...
Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island
Release Date:
05/15/2017
The NYC jail is a microcosm of everything wrong with America’s criminal-justice system—but may also offer a model for how it can be righted.
Supported by WT Grant Foundation, Research Finds School Choice Policies Impact Segregation
Release Date:
05/23/2017
... and co-director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State, the new generation of school choice ...
Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time
Release Date:
07/13/2017
A new report from the Urban Institute tells much of the reason why the nation’s prison and jail population has dropped only slightly in recent years: Prisoners sentenced to long terms under laws passed in previous decades still are locked up, and...
A Q&A with Sampriti Ganguli, Arabella Advisors’ CEO
Release Date:
07/18/2017
... and economic development, climate issues, women’s rights , education, good food, and more. . . A Q&A with ...
Here Are 3 Ways Negotiation Skills Keep Advancing Gender Equality
Release Date:
08/29/2017
While women continue to advance in unprecedented ways, the journey towards full equality is still evolving. The history of that journey is also surprisingly young.
How To Balance Policies And Guidelines To Prompt Different Levels Of Employee Engagement
Release Date:
08/30/2017
Most see policies and guidelines as bureaucratic inhibitors and constraints. However, used the right way, those same policies and guidelines free people to do their jobs by directing focus. They key is applying the right degrees of freedom to prompt...
Carmen Fariña Promises to Improve Classroom Diversity By Rezoning Schools
Release Date:
08/31/2017
City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña vowed to tackle classroom segregation with school rezonings across the city in the upcoming school year.
Mayor De Blasio: NYC Will Continue to Support People Who Rely on DACA Even As Trump Axes The Program
Release Date:
09/06/2017
I have a message for President Trump: Don't mess with your fellow New Yorkers. As a city, we do not take kindly to anything that affronts our people. We don't like it when our neighbors are singled out for who they are.
LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There's an Effort to Change That
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... poring over primary and secondary sources about the civil rights icon Bayard Rustin. There's his 1987 obituary in The .....
City Council to Consider Expanding Stays at Shelters for Runaway and Homeless Teens, Young Adults
Release Date:
09/08/2017
Homeless and runaway youth would be able to stay longer in the city’s crisis shelters under new legislation that will be introduced in the City Council Thursday.
Review Board Recommends Departmental Charges Against N.Y. Police Officer in Eric Garner Case
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... 2014 has been the subject of a long-running federal civil rights investigation. Review Board Recommends Departmental ...
Education Coalition Promises To Continue ‘Opt-Outs’
Release Date:
09/14/2017
Claiming the Next Generation standards approved this week by the Board of Regents are “little more than a rebranding” of Common Core, a coalition of parent and teacher groups is vowing to continue boycotting New York’s standardized tests.
Opinion: Irma, Harvey and Sandy - We Need a Marshall Plan for Future Disasters Like These
Release Date:
09/14/2017
The federal government should identify communities most at risk of flooding and launch a major infrastructure initiative that creates good jobs for a pressing purpose.
The Fate of NYC’s Undocumented Bakers Could Change the Food Industry
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... dozen bakery workers, union organizers, and workers’ rights advocates took to the streets of midtown Manhattan to ...
New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent from Classrooms; Problem Is Three Times Worse in Traditional Schools
Release Date:
09/20/2017
Teachers in traditional district schools are three times as likely to be chronically absent from the classroom as those in charter schools, meaning they are gone for more than 10 days in a typical 180-day school year, a new research paper has found.
Bed-Stuy’s Gentrification, Effects On Residents Analyzed In Comptroller’s Report
Release Date:
09/20/2017
The report, entitled “An Economic Snapshot of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Neighborhood,” takes a look at how gentrification has affected the neighborhood and its long-time residents. While there has been a surge in new businesses and employment growth,...