Results List
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Obama backs Health Care for America Now
Source: HCAN
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has signed on to the progressive Health Care for America Now campaign's principles - a move that bolsters the clout of the nascent organization and could provide him with artillery support as he starts to pound the health-care issue on the…
Resource type: News
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Consensus on Learning Time Builds
Source: Education Week
by Catherine Gewertz Under enormous pressure to prepare students for a successful future-and fearful that standard school hours don't offer enough time to do so-educators, policymakers, and community activists are adding more learning time to children's lives. This issue is hot right now, said Bela…
Resource type: News
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Child Trends Introduces New Series of Fact Sheets on "What Works" and LINKS Evaluations Database
Source: Child Trends
Child Trends is pleased to introduce a new series of Fact Sheets on "what works" to improve outcomes for children and youth. With the support of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and the Stewart Trust and under the direction of Senior Scholar Kristin Moore, Child…
Resource type: News
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Spec. Ed. Is Funding Early Help
Source: Education Week
by Christina A. Samuels Bit by bit, the U.S. Department of Education is trying to pull down the walls that have traditionally separated general and special education. One facet of the plan is the department's support of response to intervention, or RTI, an educational technique…
Resource type: News
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First-Year Implementation of the Center for After-School Excellence Certificate Programs
Source: Center of After-School Excellence
A college-based, one-year certificate programme for after-school workers garnered positive response from U.S. participants who said the programme helped them improve their academic abilities as well as their knowledge about working with youth, according to this evaluation by Policy Study Associates.The Center of After-School Excellence…
Resource type: Evaluation
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A Decline in Uninsured Is Reported for 2007
Source: The New York Times
by IAN URBINA WASHINGTON - After climbing steadily for six years, the number of Americans without health insurance dropped by more than a million in 2007, to 45.7 million, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. The drop was the result of growth in government-sponsored health insurance…
Resource type: News
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CITY KIDS GET TECH SUPPORT
Source: New York Post
Original Source By DAN AVERY A few years ago, Frank Rogers found himself at a crossroads. The child of drug addicts, he spent most of his childhood in New York City's notorious foster-care system, bouncing between homes in Harlem, Brooklyn and the South Bronx. By…
Resource type: News
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Health care groups import nurses to boost numbers
Source: The Independent on Saturday (South Africa)
by Nondumiso Mbuyazi THE shortage of skilled medical staff in South Africa has resulted in three of the country's major health care companies all now recruiting nurses from India. The health care companies are Medi-Clinic, Life Group and Netcare. They have recruited 350 nurses, and…
Resource type: News
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What's Next for After-School? Expanded Learning Time
Source: New York Nonprofit Press
Point of View by Lucy Friedman Kids spend less than a quarter of their waking hours attending school. A kid who lives on the 20th floor of a Bronx high-rise is still bound by a school schedule created a century ago for families who needed…
Resource type: News
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Some Reflections on Philanthropy and Government
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, gives the Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the United Neighborhood Houses in New York City. I appreciate the invitation to share some thoughts with the board and staff members of the settlement houses and other…
Resource type: Speech