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With Police in Schools, More Children in Court
By Erik Eckholm Craig Davis, an officer at E. L. Furr High School in Houston. Officers once issued so many citations that students felt antagonized. Photo: Michael Stravato for The New York Times HOUSTON — As school districts across the country consider placing more police…
Author: The New York Times
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S. Africa Embraces Study Critical of Health Policy
Original Source Several organisations involved in this report are Atlantic grantees: Save the Children, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape. Funding for this publication was provided by Saving Newborn Lives/Save the…
Author: The New York Times
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The Harlem Miracle
Original Source By DAVID BROOKSOp-Ed Columnist The fight against poverty produces great programs but disappointing results. You go visit an inner-city school, job-training program or community youth center and you meet incredible people doing wonderful things. Then you look at the results from the serious…
Author: The New York Times
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$125 Million Is Pledged to Big Medical Center
Original Source By STEPHANIE STROM Despite a worldwide economic decline, the nine-figure gift is not dead. Charles F. Feeney, the iconoclastic philanthropist known as “the billionaire who wasn’t,” is giving $125 million to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center to support development of a complex…
Author: The New York Times
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Report Cites Chronic Absenteeism in City Schools
by JENNIFER MEDINA More than 90,000 of New York City’s elementary school students – roughly 20 percent – missed at least a month of classes during the last school year, with attendance problems most acute in central Brooklyn, Harlem and the South Bronx, according to…
Author: The New York Times
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In Act 2 of Life, Doing Work That Matters
Original Source By Jane E. Brody Dr. Peter I. Pressman decided to retire in 2003 after 40 years as a New York breast cancer surgeon much admired by his patients for the time and skill he devoted to them and their families. He was 68,…
Author: The New York Times
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Nonprofits Adopting a For-Profit Model
By MILLIE MUNSHI NEW YORK — Dan Cardinali is running his nonprofit organization like a business. Communities In Schools, a national dropout prevent program, went through a painful process last year similar to a cooperate reorganization that included program cuts and layoffs. Working with a…
Author: The New York Times
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Obama Says He Is Open to Altering Health Plan
Original Source By ROBERT PEAR and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG WASHINGTON — President Obama vowed Thursday to end a decades-long stalemate on overhauling the health care system, and he indicated for the first time that he was open to compromise on details of the proposal he…
Author: The New York Times
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Initiative Focuses on Early Learning Programs
The New America Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. by SAM DILLON Tucked away in an $87 billion higher education bill that passed the House last week was a broad new federal initiative aimed not at benefiting college students, but at raising quality in the early…
Author: The New York Times
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Obama to Report Widening of Initiative For Black and Latino Boys
President Obama delivering remarks at the White House in February on his My Brother’s Keeper initiative to help black and Latino boys succeed. Photo: Gabriella Demczuck / The New York Times By Motoko Rich President Obama will announce on Monday that 60 of the nation’s…
Author: The New York Times