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Renowned Scholar Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff is appointed as Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing Equity [caption id="attachment_75797" align="alignright" width="295"] Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff[/caption]New York, NY – President Jeremy Travis of John Jay College announced the establishment of the Franklin A. Thomas Professorship in Policing…

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This primer, funded by Atlantic and the Open Society Foundation, presents extensive statistics about the troubling police practice of stopping, questioning, and frisking pedestrians in New York City.The NumbersData show stops tend to be concentrated in a handful of police precincts and that the vast…

Original Source By Thomas F. Ferguson '74 By the time most people are 50, they have learned to spend less than they earn. Gara LaMarche '76 has had to unlearn that rule in his job as CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, a $4 billion global…

In an effort to inform the growing dialogue on school discipline, this report examines trends in suspensions in New York City over an 11-year period (2006-07 to 2016-17) for middle school and high school students. The report reveals that while suspensions on the whole fluctuated,…

Will Houston's charter school expansion revolutionize urban education? Original Source by Jay Mathews It all began with the waiting lists. At Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, long waiting lists are seen as evidence of high standards and prestige. But long waiting lists were the cause of…

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="660"] Photo: Thinkstock/The Root[/caption] By Tanya E. Coke By linking education and criminal justice, the initiative could finally address the key problems that are holding back young men. On Thursday, President Obama launched My Brother’s Keeper, a joint initiative of government, philanthropy and…

Nine Others Win $10,000 Each, as Experienced Adults Prove to be an Unexpected Source of Social Innovation SAN FRANCISCO - One winner put his mechanical know-how to work and invented a $28 machine to help rural African villagers shell peanuts more efficiently. Another, in Fargo,…

by Michele McNeil In pivotal state races that will affect education, voters in Tuesday's elections legalized slot machines in Maryland to help fund schools, flipped the Missouri governor's office from Republican to Democrat, and defeated ballot measures in Oregon that would have limited English-language learners'…

New Orleans's Post-Katrina Test May Offer Lessons for Ailing Systems Original Source By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS The storm that swamped this city three years ago also effectively swept away a public school system with a dismal record and faint prospects…