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More Traveller pupils in second level
Source: Irish Examiner
by Niall Murray THE numbers of Traveller children making it to second-level education has more than doubled in six years but the vast majority still never make it to the Leaving Certificate. Figures revealed by Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe show that 2,317 students from the…
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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…
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Schools list strategies to cut down on dropouts
Source: The Courier-Post (New Jersey)
Original Source By JOSEPH GIDJUNIS Woodrow Wilson High School's incoming class of seniors is expected to have at least 40 extra names to call come graduation next June. While the Class of 2008 had 210 graduates, the Class of 2009, could have as many as…
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Obama's No-Brainer on Education
Source: Newsweek
Moderates would respond to a Democrat willing to slip the ideological stranglehold of a liberal interest group. Original Source by Jonathan Alter One of the best things about the democratic primaries was that horse-race-obsessed reporters rarely asked the candidates about education. Why was that good?…
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The Center for After-School Excellence Graduates First Class of After-School Educators
Source: The Center for After-School Excellence
Original Source The after-school field in New York took an important step toward boosting the success of kids who attend after-school and summer programs citywide. In a first for New York City, 72 after-school educators who work with kids in all five boroughs studied this…
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Rich man? No, a poor man
Source: The Irish Independent
Original Source By Susan Daly The great philanthropist Andrew Carnegie once said that inheriting a fortune was a curse. Cast one eye over the troubled offspring of assorted rock stars, billionaires and celebrities and Carnegie's words ring true today. Now a new generation of Daddy…
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Charter Schools' Big Experiment
Source: The Washington Post
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…
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Advocacy – Often the Most Direct Route to Social Change
Source: Gara LaMarche
Supporting advocates who work to persuade members of the U.S. Congress of the necessity of allocating more federal money for children’s health programmes... Backing public interest lawyers whose arguments convince the U.S. Supreme Court that capital punishment for youth is unconstitutional.... Convincing lawmakers to…
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Making Technology Meaningful
Source: Youth Today
After-school programs learn how to make kids conversant in the language of the digital age. Original Source by Deborah Huso OK, so you have computers in your after-school program. Now, what do the kids do with them? If they do some Web research and play…
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Atlantic Philanthropies Awards $18 Million for Chicago Middle-School Initiative
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Atlantic Philanthropies has announced a four-year, $18 million grant to support a five-school effort designed to help middle school students in the Chicago Public School system succeed in high school and graduate. Chicago is one of up to four sites nationwide selected to participate in…
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