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In districts all over the United States, race and class remain among the most reliable predictors of student success in school. Currently, in southern states, more than half of all the students enrolled in public school are from low-income families, with a growing number of…

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…

This report from the Schott Foundation for Public Education, an Atlantic grantee, finds that only 52 percent of Black male and 58 per cent of Latino male ninth-graders graduate from high school four years later, while 78 per cent of White, non-Latino male ninth-graders graduate…

I remember covering poverty-stricken schools. Sitting in classrooms in which the teachers were disillusioned or killing time, meeting parent volunteers unable to read to the class and children who appeared rather hopeless.It's bleak.Of course, there are always a few bright spots, and journalists love to…

Original Source The Academy for Educational Development, the Children's Aid Society and The After-School Corporation are Atlantic grantees. The Toyota USA Foundation has announced grants totaling $3.3 million to twelve organizations working in the areas of K-12 math, science, and environmental education. The foundation awarded…

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…

Original Source by Robert Stinson | City Writer Communities in Schools reduces dropouts and increases graduations, a recent report released by the Texas Education Agency said. The report showed Communities in Schools has increased math achievements, parental involvement and keeping costs per student low in the…

By Meabh RitchieReligious feeling runs high on the two sides of Derry, but Northern Ireland’s Sharing Education Programme sees Catholic and Protestant pupils working together, reports Meabh Ritchie It may be early summer, but sheets of rain are slicing the landscape in two and colliding…

By 2016 philanthropist Chuck Feeney will have given €1.5 billion to education projects in Ireland. A weighty new photographic book illustrates his generosity here and abroad. [caption id="attachment_53981" align="aligncenter" width="750"] Schoolchildren in Cape Town visit Robben Island; the island’s visitor centre is funded by Atlantic…

Current educational policies and practices are pushing millions of young people out of school. This “pushout” crisis is fueled by many factors, including zero-tolerance and other punitive discipline policies. This report presents a set of recommended policies to schools, districts and legislators to help end school pushout…