The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times
Release Date:
10/13/2015
... of millions of dollars every month to other forprofit schools that have been accused of predatory behavior, ...
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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments On Colleges Still Giving Preference to Legacy Students
Release Date:
05/02/2016
... with an advantage in the college admissions process. Most schools that privilege these students ensure that each legacy ...
United Way of New York City Helps Distribute More Than 100 Backpacks to Brownsville Students
Release Date:
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.
Edna McConnell Clark and Other Powerful Funders Stand Behind At-Risk Students
Release Date:
11/23/2016
... Gates, Walton, and Broad that back things like charter schools and teacher accountability. Yet, there is plenty ... reforms which are so in vogue right now. Communities in Schools is a great example... Edna...
New York City’s Top Science And Math Teachers Honored With Prestigious Sloan Awards
Release Date:
12/07/2016
... and mathematics teachers in New York City public high schools who achieve superb outcomes and promote a love for ...
Princeton Project Funded by Two PNY Members Reveals Insight into Behavior-Change Campaigns
Release Date:
01/20/2017
... students to take a public stand against bullying at their schools and found that middle schools that instituted Roots experienced a 30 percent ...
Weinberg Foundation Launches Annual Community-Wide Book Drive Benefiting Baltimore Library Project
Release Date:
03/01/2017
... to build or transform up to 24 Baltimore City Public Schools libraries in an effort to strengthen academic ...
Carnegie, Ford Give $1M to Free Legal Services Project for Immigrants
Release Date:
03/27/2017
... that includes 182 advocacy organizations, 14 law schools , 21 law schools and 14 bar associations. In a partnership with the ...
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Representatives Tour Renovated Labs at University of Miami
Release Date:
03/31/2017
In the hopes of making a difference for critically ill, premature babies and their families, the local leadership of the Bank of America recently toured the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Division of Neonatology, where unit...
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
... years of age, and serve as a partner with Atlanta Public Schools to promote a direct pipeline for education.... The ...
As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... Faces a Reality Check In the last five years, dozens of schools have popped up offering an unusual promise: Even ... boot-camp field now faces a sobering moment, as two large schools have announced plans to...
Opinion: Vacant Lots And Properties Could House New York City’s Homeless
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... career as a school safety agent for New York City public schools , and is now living in a shelter. People like Jermain ...
Russell Sage Foundation to Publish Book on Home Health Care Work: Shouldn’t It Be Work Worth Doing?
Release Date:
08/29/2017
How to provide long-term care for a fast-aging population poses one of the more convoluted challenges of the American labor market. In his new book, “Who Will Care For Us?,” to be published next month by the Russell Sage Foundation, MIT Professor...
Eight Top 10 Lists From New York City’s 2017 State Test Scores
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... math. In the lists below, we take a closer look at which schools had the largest and smallest shares of students ... two tests, meaning they scored 3 or 4. And we reveal which schools had the biggest positive...
Winning the Lottery: Enrolling in Success Academy Produces Math Gains for Students, New Study Shows
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... towards the top of what’s been estimated for charter schools ,” said Rebecca Unterman, the author of the report. ...
To Change The World, “Eat What You Buy, And Stop Buying More Than You’ll Eat”
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... about ensuring students receive quality meals in schools and are learning ways to make healthy, informed ...
‘I Consider Myself American.’ A New York City Dreamer Reflects on What Losing DACA Would Mean For Him
Release Date:
09/11/2017
William came to the United States as a child more than a decade ago, and still remembers his first impressions of New York City: towering buildings, modern cars, a jumble of cultures on the crowded sidewalks.
Teaching Sept. 11 To Students Who Were Born After The Attacks
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... cry after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Yet America's schools — where collective memory is shaped — are now .....
New Pre-K Center Slated to Open on Upper East Side in 2019, Officials Say
Release Date:
09/19/2017
A universal pre-kindergarten center with 180 seats is coming to East 76th Street, providing spots in a neighborhood clamoring for more pre-K options, DNAinfo New York has learned.
Nearly Two Dozen Teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G
Release Date:
09/25/2017
Nearly two dozen teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy took pay cuts, some in the $50,000 range, after Education Department officials killed an experimental pay program at the school.