Results List
-
Why Some Schools Want To Expel Suspensions
Source: NPR
When Garfield High School in Los Angeles stopped suspending students for "willful defiance" several years ago, it saw suspensions drop from more than 600 to just one. Tuesday, the Los Angeles Unified School District board voted to follow suit in all LA schools. Photo: Reed…
Resource type: News
-
Support, Friendship, Love and Care: A Recipe for Looking After Children and Young People in Northern Ireland
Source: VOYPIC Policy and Research
Children and young people in foster, residential and other types of care in Northern Ireland expressed their feelings about the best and the worst of their experiences in a first-of-its-kind survey conducted by VOYPIC. In 2011, the organisation launched a computer-based survey to collect the…
Resource type: Research Report
-
Hall’s Ireland Vietnam Blood-Borne Virus Initiative Provides a Model for the Global Virus Network
Source: Global Virus Network
Many organisations that look to the future of their professions have reached a similar conclusion: today and in the future, practitioners need to collaborate, learn from eachother, and train the next generation to expand on their work.This conclusion is certainly true in the field of…
Resource type: News
-
LA Schools Throw Out Suspensions For 'Willful Defiance'
Source: NPR
When Garfield High School in Los Angeles stopped suspending students for "willful defiance" several years ago, it saw suspensions drop from more than 600 to just one. Tuesday, the Los Angeles Unified School District board voted to follow suit in all LA schools. Photo: Reed…
Resource type: News
-
A School Journey Into Eastern Cape's Darkest Heart
Source: Daily Maverick
By Mandy De Waal While children in former Model C schools enjoy the privilege of excellent facilities, there are places of learning in rural areas without access to water, where pupils share grossly overcrowded classrooms, and where conditions essentially violate basic human rights. During a…
Resource type: News
-
Prevention and Early Intervention Programme in Ireland and Northern Ireland
Source: Mathematica Policy Research
Children and youth organisations on the island of Ireland are building a strong body of prevention and early intervention practices, according to an evaluation of Atlantic's investments by Mathematica Policy Research. Meanwhile, research organisations are acquiring new expertise in evaluating children's prevention and early intervention…
Resource type: Evaluation
-
Teaching in Prison's Shadow
Source: Huffington Post
By Sally Lee, Executive Director, Teachers UniteNot long ago a New Haven, Conn., high school with a predominantly African-American student body had an annex for students with chronic absences and those labeled as having behavioral issues. The annex was located in the New Haven Armory,…
Resource type: News
-
Evaluation of family support programmes published
Source: Genio
Genio, an Atlantic grantee, has just published a report on the evaluation of family support programmes for people with a disability in Ireland.In 2010, Genio supported four family-focused projects through small grants. The objective of these projects was to build capacity within families to promote…
Resource type: News
-
Miss. District Required to Adjust 'Discriminatory' Discipline Policies
Source: Education Week
By Nirvi ShahA new agreement aims to stop what the federal government has labeled discriminatory discipline practices in the 6,100-student Meridian, Miss., school district. The U.S. Department of Justice said today that the school district has agreed to take a number of steps to address…
Resource type: News
-
“Deliberate Deployment” or Perpetuity? Questions to Inform Timing Strategies for Philanthropy
Source: Nonprofit Quarterly
Perhaps “deliberate deployment” should replace “spending down” in the philanthropic glossary.
Resource type: News