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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...

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Winning the Lottery: Enrolling in Success Academy Produces Math Gains for Students, New Study Shows

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08/30/2017

... towards the top of what’s been estimated for charter schools ,” said Rebecca Unterman, the author of the report. ...

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To Change The World, “Eat What You Buy, And Stop Buying More Than You’ll Eat”

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08/31/2017

... about ensuring students receive quality meals in schools and are learning ways to make healthy, informed ...

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Food Systems

‘I Consider Myself American.’ A New York City Dreamer Reflects on What Losing DACA Would Mean For Him

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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.

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Teaching Sept. 11 To Students Who Were Born After The Attacks

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09/11/2017

... cry after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Yet America's schools — where collective memory is shaped — are now .....

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New Pre-K Center Slated to Open on Upper East Side in 2019, Officials Say

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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.

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Nearly Two Dozen Teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G

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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.

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New York City Students Are Getting Younger

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10/05/2017

... of two years. Now, for the first time, the city's public schools are offering programs targeted at even younger .....

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More Training Needed to Fill New York’s ‘Middle Skill Jobs

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10/13/2017

It’s widely known that college graduates earn far more money over the professional careers than their peers who only have a high school diploma.

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Ford Foundation to Support 'Student-Centered' Learning Systems

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10/26/2017

... that are launching the award—the Coalition for Community Schools , Communities in Schools , and StriveTogether... Ford Foundation to Support ...

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The Simons Foundation Awards “Science Everywhere” Grants to Teachers

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11/03/2017

As part of a campaign to bring science and math outside the classroom, The Simons Foundation and Overdeck Family Foundation join forces to award five teachers $5,000 each for innovative projects.

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Aetna Foundation Supports Anti-Bullying Campaign

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11/17/2017

... The finished series will be distributed in local schools through social media during the fall 2018 and spring ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Consultant & Vendor Lists: Coaching & Leadership Development

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02/2022

... Development AB Strategies Antonia Bowring http:// www .AB-strategies.com antonia@AB-strategies.com , ... , (415) 758-7067 Barbara Grant Consulting Group www .bgrantgroup.com Barbara Grant, info@bgrantgroup.com Bobbi Block www .bobbiblock.com Bobbi Block, bobbiblock@comcast.net ...

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Trinity Wall Street Appoints Rev. Canon Benjamin Musoke-Lubega As Director Of Faith In Action

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06/03/2013

... program for those in need and advocacy for local public schools . “Benjamin realizes that essential truth: all that ...

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Sheldon H. Danziger Named New President of the Russell Sage Foundation

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02/01/2013

The Russell Sage Foundation, the principal American foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences, has announced the appointment of Sheldon H. Danziger, the Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy at...

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09 May 2013

God Loves Uganda - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Series

Thursday, May 9, 2013 -

5:30pm to 8:30pm

... missionaries have been credited with both creating schools and hospitals and promoting dangerous religious ...

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Atlantic on Spending Down: "We’re Actually Gearing Up”

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08/06/2014

Tony Proscio writes that when The Atlantic Philanthropies makes its final round of grants, "they'll be bigger, in both size and the scope of their ambition, than in any comparable period before."

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Hurricane Season is Here, Sandy is Not Over

Release Date:

10/31/2014

... Sandy on his community in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Though schools were telling families that everything was back to ...

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Big Gaps in the Big Apple: Measuring Well-Being in the New York Metro Area

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05/10/2012

By Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis, Co-Directors, Measure of America What does well-being and opportunity look like in the New York metropolitan area? The typical Asian-American resident of the New...

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19 May 2015

Economic Inequality and Mobility: Looking at the Evidence to Inform Philanthropy’s Actions

Tuesday, May 19, 2015 -

9:15am to 11:15am

Since the economic downturn of 2008, increasing media attention on income inequality and its effects on our society has turned up the volume on the public conversation. But has the coverage actually increased the philanthropic sector’s understanding...