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Elev8 Baltimore and Chicago Schools Win Department of Education Award Elev8 Picked as a Model School-Community Partnership As Part of Together for Tomorrow School Improvement Program   WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) recognized two sites…

On Monday, October 15, at an event held in Washington, the U.S. Department of Education and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) recognized Elev8 programs in Baltimore and Chicago as Together for Tomorrow School Improvement Champions.Elev8 was one of 24 initiatives named as…

By David E. ThigpenVice President of Policy and Strategic Advancement, Insight CenterElders are revered for their experience and wisdom in many cultures around the globe, but here in America where our civic, media and business cultures worship at the fountain of youth, elders are seen…

This dispatch is from Civic Ventures’ Encore Careers campaign, an Atlantic grantee that aims to engage millions of people in encore careers – combining personal meaning, continued income and social impact – to produce a windfall of talent to solve society’s greatest problems.This is an…

BILL CORCORAN in Cape TownThe South African government has introduced a Bill that will give pension and healthcare rights to the 56,000 registered veterans of the struggle against apartheid, but critics say the scheme does not go far enoughIT IS 25 YEARS since Trevor Ngengemane…

By LARRY DONNELLY “Your grandmother would be sending the men in white coats for you.” My father said this to me only half-jokingly in the summer of 2001 when I announced that I was relocating for a year to the west of Ireland. Horrified by…

The below Royal Gazette article features some of the findings of a new report, "Out of School and 'On the Wall': A qualitative look into the lives of unemployed young Black Bermudian men and the gender gap in educational attainment," by Drs. Monique Jethwani-Keyser and…

The ruling today overturning the most extreme parts of Arizona’s SB 1070 is, of course, a welcome one. No advocate for common sense immigration reform could possibly defend SB 1070, and any rebuke of this immoral and ineffective policy is a step in the right…

Posted by Ray Long.SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law a historic ban on the death penalty in Illinois and commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates to life without parole. The governor said he followed his conscience. He said he believed…

by Ben Smith The Atlantic Philanthropies, founded by the duty-free tycoon Chuck Feeney, have emerged as a major force on the left, and in an online forum today the group discussed its role in Health Care for America Now!, which it gave $25 million to…