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Brooklyn Principal wins Sloan Public Service Award and $10,000 Prize
Release Date:
06/04/2014
... Award for her efforts in improving the lives of older students April Leong, principal of Brooklyn's Liberation High ... Awards for her efforts in improving the lives of older students . The award comes...
NYC Preparing To Expand Restorative Justice Programs in Schools
Release Date:
06/20/2014
... peer mediation and student justice panels look to change students ’ behaviors. Restorative practices often end with ...
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Studies Impact of Volunteerism
Release Date:
03/06/2015
... measures of reading proficiency over a control group of students , many of whom also received supplemental reading ...
Markle Foundation President Examines China as a Source of Jobs for the U.S. in WSJ OpEd
Release Date:
06/04/2015
... student named Zhu Ling became mysteriously ill. Other students posted her medical details on the Internet, allowing ...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Columbia's Justice-In-Education Initiative
Release Date:
08/27/2015
... But this was no ordinary summer school class, and its students were not traditional collegians. The four men and ... program on the Morningside campus, Columbia professors and students teach classes at New...
Citi Foundation Supports Young Entrepreneur Challenge
Release Date:
11/03/2015
... and mentoring into the best business plan. Hundreds of students , family members, educators and business leaders ...
Con Edison Among Backers of 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge in Brooklyn
Release Date:
12/16/2015
... Muslim Integrated Community in Prospect Heights. The students , aged 12-17, were challenged to design and create an ...
Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)
Release Date:
02/11/2016
... helping to close the achievement gap between rich and poor students and lift the performance of struggling pupils. ...
IU Joins Center For Integration Of Research, Teaching And Learning (Sloan Foundation)
Release Date:
03/11/2016
... and Learning, to improve the teaching skills of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and to increase the ... proven teaching and mentoring techniques for STEM graduate students . . . The Center for the...
Atlantic Philanthropies' Mediratta Publishes New Book on Inequality in School Discipline
Release Date:
09/09/2016
... addresses the profound and life-altering consequences students face—especially young people of color—when ... to answer three questions: • Why are some students subjected to harsher discipline than others...
Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps
Release Date:
10/19/2016
... positive outcomes for both low- and middle-income students , a report from the Century Foundation finds. ... to produce strong academic outcomes and better prepare students for living in a diverse society.....
Century Foundation Report Praises Morris School Merger, As District Faces New Tests From Immigration
Release Date:
12/13/2016
... and present district administrators, teachers, parents and students , the study was released by the Century Foundation, ...
With Wallace Foundation Support, New Study Finds Principal Development Pipelines Both Beneficial and Affordable
Release Date:
07/10/2017
... Principals manage school facilities, supervise students and staff, and serve as their schools' instructional .....
Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... slide” — the learning loss that often occurs when students are out of school for two months. It’s a serious problem. But it’s not just students who can slide backward during these months. Facing ...
Charter Schools Are Losing the Narrative But Winning the Data
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... economics Sue Dynarski in 2015. “In urban areas, where students are overwhelmingly low-achieving, poor and nonwhite, ...
Salesforce Commits to Adding 1,000 New Local Jobs
Release Date:
11/30/2018
... with schools to provide the best learning environment for students ; promotes learning experiences that give students needed skills for future success; and helps young ...
Six NYC Scientists Win Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research
Release Date:
05/08/2017
... growth of ovarian tumors. Specifically, he will examine how cellular stress within ovarian cancer tumors impacts the ... program’s investment in leading scientists will change how cancer is understood and...
Surdna Foundation Announces a Reorganization and Promotions
Release Date:
07/11/2023
... an opportunity for me to reevaluate our structure and how we collaborate. Late last year, I began to reorganize ... Surdna is to ensure that our grantmaking—including how we work, learn, and communicate—is...
A Message from the Funders Census Initiative
Release Date:
04/01/2020
... power and more than $1.5 trillion per year in federal resources , further marginalizing the communities and ... work to Get-out-the-Count together. Here are a few census resources we find valuable at this point...