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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments On Colleges Still Giving Preference to Legacy Students

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05/02/2016

Legacy preference is the practice of providing qualifying students who have some sort of family connection to the school with an advantage in the college admissions process.

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The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

Guardian's 6th Annual Workplace Benefits Study Finds Student Loan Debt Growth Fastest Among Boomers

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04/17/2019

Guardian's 6th Annual Workplace Benefits Study Finds Student Loan Debt Growth Fastest Among Boomers (BPT) - Student loan debt in the U.S. has been skyrocketing for ... baby boomers are increasingly feeling...

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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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Schott Foundation's Jackson Declares "Our Nation Can No Longer Neglect Marginalized Students"

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04/26/2017

... Resolved. No child walks into a classroom as just a student . Our children carry with them a whole identity ...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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With Support from Carnegie, New Science Standards Deliver Students from Textbooks to ‘Real-World' Applications

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05/19/2017

... Science Coordinator Michael Heinz, the standards shift a student 's thought process to "how things happen, why things .....

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Black And Hispanic Students In New York City Most Likely To Be Arrested And Handcuffed, Data Shows

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09/27/2017

More than 92 percent of students arrested in schools last year were black or Hispanic, according to a new analysis — a racial disparity that has persisted even as the city has reduced in-school arrests and summonses.

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Russell Sage Foundation Study Finds Gaps in Educational Attainment Among Students of Different Incomes

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05/04/2016

While the difference in high school graduation rates between high- and low-income students shrunk, inequality may have shifted to higher education, with gaps growing in college attendance and completion.

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Century Foundation President's Commentary Explains Why Teachers Deserve a Break on Student Debt

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10/03/2017

... Commentary Explains Why Teachers Deserve a Break on Student Debt In October 2007, as experts began warning about rising student debt levels, Congress passed a new law to give ... effort was an important step...

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The Century Foundation

With Support from Gerstner and Heckscher Foundations, SUNY Announces Emergency Aid to Support Degree Completion Among Students

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12/19/2017

Starting next year, University at Albany students who are at risk of dropping out due to sudden financial hardship or some other emergency situation could be eligible to apply for emergency aid.

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students

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10/06/2017

Traveling south about an hour from downtown Pittsburgh along Pennsylvania Route 43, visitors roll into Coal Center, home to Intermediate Unit 1, a regional education service agency. Intermediate Unit 1 also serves as home to a Fab Lab — a highly...

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United Way of New York City Helps Distribute More Than 100 Backpacks to Brownsville Students

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10/04/2016

On September 8, FedEx volunteers teamed up with United Way of New York City (UWNYC) to make this first day of school possible.

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United Way of New York City

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Edna McConnell Clark and Other Powerful Funders Stand Behind At-Risk Students

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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.

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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New School Year, New Complaints About Contaminated Food Given To NYC Students

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09/20/2017

Just days into the new school year, there are already problems with the food served to New York City’s 1.1 million students.

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Community Development & Place Based Initiatives

Food Systems

06 Apr 2016

Know What They Owe – Ensuring that New York’s Students Graduate College with Manageable Debt

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9:00am to 11:00am

... often unable to accurately decipher them or determine a student ’s bottom line costs. Without a full understanding ...

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21 Jul 2022

Many Philanthropic Professionals Will Erase All Student Debt This Year: Can You?- A Webinar Hosted by the NYC Capacity Building Collaborative

Thursday, July 21, 2022 -

3:30pm to 4:30pm

... of Consumer Affairs, nearly 1 million New Yorkers have student loans, totaling almost $35 billion. The financial ... and Brown borrowers. Two decades after taking out their student loans, the median Black...

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Supported by Verizon Foundation, Three High School Students Graduate from 'Girls Who Code' Program at NJIT

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09/27/2016

The intensive summer program, which meets Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., combines more than 300 hours of instruction in web development and design, robotics and mobile development with mentorship and exposure, led by top female engineers...

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Verizon

14 Sep 2022

How Funders Are Helping Their Nonprofit Partners Get their Student Loans Forgiven by October – A Members Briefing Co-Hosted by PSLF.nyc

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

President Biden's recent student loan announcements were welcome news for low-income ... days we have an existing, massive, opportunity to forgive student debt. After 14 years with a deeply flawed system, we...

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