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Budget cuts affect schools differently, youths find
Source: UCLA Today
Original Source UCLA is an Atlantic grantee. California’s education funding has been cut by $17 billion in the last two budget deals, and schools are suffering. But some students are hurting more than others, according to a group of high school student researchers who presented…
Resource type: News
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Social Justice: A Guiding Vision for Atlantic’s Final Chapter
Source: Gara LaMarche
All healthy institutions must from time to time take a look at what they are doing to see what’s working and what isn’t, to re-examine assumptions in light of changes in the environment – political, social, economic and philanthropic – and make any necessary adjustments.…
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In South Africa, rape is linked to manhood
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
Original Source by CELEAN JACOBSON Dumisani Rebombo had not been circumcised, did house chores considered girls' work and was sick of being taunted for not being a man. So he took the only other course considered "manly" in his rural South African village: He raped…
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Communities In Schools Receives Major Grant From the Walmart Foundation to Expand Performance Learning Centers
Source: Walmart Foundation (Release)
Communities In Schools is an Atlantic grantee. ARLINGTON, Va., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Communities In Schools, the nation's largest dropout prevention organization, has received a major grant from the Walmart Foundation to improve educational opportunities for young people through its network of Performance Learning Centers…
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Mayors Call For Expanded Learning
Source: The After-School Corporation
Original Source The US Conference of Mayors calls for investments in school-community partnerships to support "full day" learning. The US Conference of Mayors passed a resolution calling on federal, state and local governments to invest in coordinated, expanded learning or "full day" strategies that integrate…
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The Summer of Their Discontent
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Summer School Cuts Threaten Students Original Source The National Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University is an Atlantic grantee. By TOM BENNING and ANJALI ATHAVALEY Last year, Joseline and Mirelyne De Leon attended free summer school in downtown Los Angeles while their parents…
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A school, and a neighborhood, losing a leader
Source: Albuquerque Journal
Grant Middle School, through the Elev8 initiative, is an Atlantic grantee. by Lloyd Jojola After 13 years as Grant Middle School principal, Ed Briggs, the man who says he aspired to be a runner, not a walker, in life and in education, is slowing the pace. Briggs…
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Teach For America Receives $1.4 Million to Recruit Math, Science Teachers
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source Teach for America is an Atlantic grantee. The Minneapolis-based Medtronic Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the global medical technology company, has announced a three-year, $1.4 million grant to Teach For America to expand its national recruitment and training of math and science teachers. A portion…
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Cisco Commits $4.5 Million to City Year to Curb High School Dropout Crisis
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source City Year is an Atlantic grantee. Cisco Systems and the Cisco Foundation have announced a pledge of $4.5 million in new funding to City Year's Whole School Whole Child program. The foundation will donate up to $1.5 million over the next three years to enhance the…
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'Expectations Gap' May Be Contributing Factor in Dropout Crisis, Report Finds
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source America's Promise Alliance is an Atlantic grantee. In contrast to most students who drop out, many educators do not believe that students at risk of dropping out would work harder if more were demanded of them, revealing an "expectations gap" that…
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