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Americans of All Ages Are Ready for Citizen Service: Are Politicians Ready to Lead Them?
This morning Senators John McCain and Barack Obama suspended their intense competition for the Presidency to visit Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, in tribute to those who lost their lives on a brilliantly sunny New York morning seven years ago today. And tonight they will…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Cradle-to-prison pipeline focus of meeting
by NOEL E. OMAN Dismantling the cradle-to prison pipeline that will leave one in three black males born since 2001 at a lifetime risk of going to prison is the ambitious goal of a meeting to be held next month in Little Rock. The Arkansas…
Author: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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NYC's Action on School Discipline Moves Closer to Just Education
By Kavitha Mediratta, Chief Strategy Advisor, Equity Initiatives & Human Capital Development, The Atlantic Philanthropies In recent years, thousands of New York City school children have been disciplined through exclusion from school, disengaging them from learning and increasing the likelihood they will get caught up…
Author: Philanthropy New York
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School discipline: Ringing a bell for reform
By Judith Kaye There are many lessons I took with me from my treasured 15 years as chief judge of the state of New York, principally that there is an “after-life”—meaning, after mandatory retirement from the court at age 70. Always there is opportunity to…
Author: New York Amsterdam News
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Health minister shocked by SA child death rate
Original Source JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – Over 60 000 children, aged between a month and five years, die in South Africa each year, according to a report released at a health summit in Johannesburg on Tuesday. “Many of the children die at home having had…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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Obama's No-Brainer on Education
Moderates would respond to a Democrat willing to slip the ideological stranglehold of a liberal interest group. Original Source by Jonathan Alter One of the best things about the democratic primaries was that horse-race-obsessed reporters rarely asked the candidates about education. Why was that good?…
Author: Newsweek
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Way to Grow
Charities use business practices to rapidly expand their programs Harlem Children’s Zone, in New York City, works with 10,000 children a year, up from just 1,500 in 1990 – and it plans to grow by another 50 percent in the next four years. Teach for…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Cities taking the lead to provide quality afterschool programs
Excerpt: The quality of an education system is dependent on far more than just the school system and the hours kids spend in school. That is why NLC, in conjunction with the Afterschool Alliance, hosted the first National City Afterschool Summit bringing together more than…
Author: Nation's Cities Weekly
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Health, education cited as poverty breaker
by JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Investing up front in early education programs and health care for children would save hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in the long run and help break the poverty cycle affecting millions of kids, a leading child advocate said Tuesday. Marian Wright…
Author: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
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Next-Gen Givers
Generous Gen-Xers are putting their own spin on charitable giving, combining their desire to achieve with their desire to do good. Original Source By SUZANNE MCGEE THE STORY IN PHILANTHROPY THIS HOLIDAY SEASON is becoming all too familiar. Individuals, foundations and corporations are all scaling…
Author: Barrons