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Task to Aid Self-Esteem Lifts Grades for Some
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By BENEDICT CAREY Some seventh graders who were struggling in class did significantly better after performing a series of brief confidence-building writing exercises, and the improvements continued through eighth grade, researchers reported Thursday. The students who benefited most were blacks who were doing…
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Alliance encourages elderly to highlight needs to candidates
Source: The Irish Times
Several Atlantic grantees are mentioned in this article. by ALISON HEALY AN ALLIANCE of groups has launched a campaign to encourage older people to highlight their needs when election candidates come calling in the coming weeks. The Older And Bolder alliance said its “On the…
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Aging and Community: ASA Presents National Forum on Civic Engagement
Source: American Society on Aging
Original Source The 2009 ASA-NCOA Aging in America Conference devoted a full day on March 16th to a National Forum on Civic Engagement, which presented best practices in civic engagement inspired by the 2006-2007 winter issue of ASA’s journalGenerations, Civic Engagement in Later Life. A…
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Older volunteers do good for schools and for their own health, studies find
Source: The Baltimore Sun
Original Source Experience Corps is an Atlantic grantee.By Liz Bowie Three days each week, Frances Gill immerses herself in a third-grade classroom in West Baltimore, usually plopping down next to a small figure working diligently to do a math problem or write a sentence. For 15…
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Groups push reconciliation option
Source: Politico.com
by Carrie Budoff Brown An umbrella group of progressive organizations is pressing congressional budget leaders to keep the option of using expedited budget procedures to move President Barack Obama's healthcare initiatives through the Senate - a move that would allow Democrats to pass a bill…
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The Perfect Storm
Source: The Nation
The intensifying economic crisis slams the world of nonprofit organizations. Original Source By Eyal Press In the days between Christmas and New Year's Eve, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sat at his desk in Lower Manhattan and reached out to people…
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Xenophobic violence last May organised by community leaders, says researcher
Source: Cape Times (South Africa)
JOHANNESBURG: The xenophobic violence last May was organised by "community leaders", a university researcher said yesterday. "The community leaders - the street committees, the comrades, the CPF (Community Policing Forum) as they are called - are involved. "They were the ones who were organising the…
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A Look at Race, Incarceration, and American Values
Source: The Huffington Post
Original Source by Marian Wright Edelman Glenn Loury, a professor in the Department of Economics at Brown University, has long been one of the nation's most outspoken Black intellectuals. For many years he was a leading conservative voice on topics like affirmative action, and whenever…
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An Army Of Changemakers
Source: Newsweek
An idea that began with Franklin D. Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps 76 years ago and extends through several presidents in both parties (including Bill Clinton and George W. Bush) is about to get turbocharged. Original Source by Jonathan Alter Newsweek Web Exclusive At a dinner…
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Economy prompts shift in Plus 50
Source: Community College Times
Original Source By MATTHEW DEMBICKI The slumping economy and increases in layoffs have prompted community colleges that are part of a new national initiative to engage older learners to tilt their programs for that population more toward job training than other types of programs. The…
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