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A researcher has hailed the ‘spectacular progress’ made by a Castlebar-based children’s project and said its work was a model for other countries to follow.“What’s going on here in Mayo is of international significance,” said Professor Howard Stevenson of the University of Lincoln. He was…

This article highlights Atlantic grantee Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty (CNADP) in its report that the Connecticut House of Representatives voted to repeal the death penalty with an 86-62 vote. The repeal now moves to the desk of Governor Dannel P. Malloy, who…

By Tami AbdollahL.A. Unified plans to begin collecting data on suspension rates at the individual classroom and teacher level starting this summer as part of its effort to improve its schools, a district official said today. "It starts at the classroom level," said Isabel Villalobos,…

How did Atlantic work to improve public health and primary health care in Viet Nam – and what lessons did it learn along the way? Watch this short video in which author Tony Proscio and Atlantic Country Director, Viet Nam Dr. Le Nhan Phuong summarise Atlantic’s grantmaking approach,…

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of elderly people in northern Thai Binh Province's Tien Hai District have actively contributed to improving public health and curbing the use of alcohol and cigarettes.Their efforts form part of a programme, launched by the Viet Nam Public Health Association and…

Today Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, announced the results of the latest Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) – a national survey of 72,000 schools – which shows that racial disparities in school discipline, including suspensions, expulsions and arrests, remain alarmingly high in districts and states across the…

February 23, 2012 (Fremont, CA) - California Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada (AD-8), in collaboration with the Sikh Coalition's Western Region office, has taken steps toward introducing a California version of the Workplace Religious Freedom Act (WRFA).  If this bill becomes law, it will make it harder…

Privacy and Safety in the Digital Age: Location Tracking and Fourth Amendment ConcernsA Panel Discussion    On January 23rd, a unanimous Supreme Court held in United States v. Jones that when the police attach a GPS device to an individual's car and use it to…

By Colette BrowneJustice Minister Alan Shatter has rightly decried the "inconvenient truth" that the State’s doors "were kept firmly closed to German Jewish families trying to flee from persecution and death" during the Holocaust.However, maybe he should ask himself if the State would be any…

RTÉ News broadcast a segment on the Atlantic-funded report "Creating Excellence in Dementia Care" on January 12, 2012. Visit the RTÉ News site or click the play button above to watch the full clip. Trinity Foundation is an Atlantic grantee.