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Top practitioners and policymakers from New Mexico share what they learned in implementing school-based health services and extended learning opportunities in this case study prepared by Child Trends. Elev8 New Mexico is an initiative of the Children & Youth Programme of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. UC Riverside researchers have received a three-year, $390,060 grant from the Spencer Foundation to expand and update the Colleges & Universities 2000 study, which investigates patterns of continuity and change in four-year higher education institutions in the United States. A research team headed…

Notwithstanding successful efforts by some colleges and universities to create lifelong learning programs for adults age 55 and older, many institutions remain stuck in outmoded, one-dimensional views of this cohort, a new report from the American Council on Education finds. Funded by the MetLife Foundation, the report, Mapping New…

Rudy Larini Star-Ledger Staff State Sen. Raymond Lesniak likes to share important moments in life with friends and family through photographs on his holiday greeting cards. Four years ago, they featured Lesniak in top hat and tails as grand marshal of New York's Pulaski Day…

Recruiting starts next month for the largest long-term study of children's health ever conducted in the U.S. by Claudia Kalb American kids are about to get some much-needed attention. Next month, after 10 years of strategizing, researchers will finally start recruiting participants for the largest…

In the face of the nation's worst financial crisis since 1932, foundations are bracing to cope with assets that plunged as a result of Wall Street’s decline.  New numbers from New Mexico suggest that foundations should turn to the underutilised strategy of supporting advocacy, organising…

A review of research on the high-profile KIPP network finds promising academic results compared with traditional public schools, though it argues that “popular accounts” have at times overhyped the schools’ apparent success. Students who enter and stay in the Knowledge Is Power Program schools tend…

by JAMES HAUG Why children quit school is a complex issue rooted in poverty and parental apathy, said experts who will speak at a dropout prevention conference today. According to Editorial Projects in Education, Nevada's graduation rate of 45 percent is the lowest in the…

Original Source By: ANDY HUMM SAGE, Services and Advocacy for Gay Elders, just scored two big grants. The Calamus Foundation has given the New York-based group a $1 million matching grant over four years for implementing the group's new strategic plan, "one of the largest…

by Grainne Cunningham NO-ONE should have to endure the "fear and the pain and the dread" that goes with terminal illness without the sort of palliative care received by writer Nuala O'Faolain in her dying days, her old friend Marian Finucane said last night. Ms…