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Teach For America Corps Members to Participate in Foundation-Sponsored Israel Tour
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source The Tulsa-based Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation has announced that it is co-sponsoring an initiative with the Samberg Family Foundation to help Teach For America corps members add Jewish context and values to their secular work as teachers in the United States. As part…
Resource type: News
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Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Low-Income Single Parents
Source: Child Trends
In the United States, low-income single parents who receive child care subsidies spend only a little less of their own money on child care than they did before receiving the subsidy, according to this study conducted by Child Trends. Child Trends, a grantee of The Atlantic Philanthropies.…
Resource type: Research Report
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Report: Communities in Schools enhances education
Source: Temple Daily Telegram
Original Source by Robert Stinson | City Writer Communities in Schools reduces dropouts and increases graduations, a recent report released by the Texas Education Agency said. The report showed Communities in Schools has increased math achievements, parental involvement and keeping costs per student low in the…
Resource type: News
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Challenge to Our Workforce: Young Adults and Low Literacy
Source: New York Nonprofit Press
Original Source by Peter Kleinbard Nearly 70% of youth who drop out of school have very poor literacy and other core skills. Indeed, this is the primary reason why they leave school. Yet most funding for dropouts is targeted to those who are most job…
Resource type: News
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Editorial: Help from Communities in Schools
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Original Source Another day, another flood of problems at a hard-knocks elementary school. A second-grader is burning with fever, but no one can find a parent. Freddie is embarrassed to turn in homework. Luis won't leave after school because someone will beat him up –…
Resource type: News
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America's Promise Alliance releases Grad Nation toolkit
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source Education The America's Promise Alliance has released a toolkit designed to help communities prepare their high school students for college, work, and life. Funded by the Bank of America, Bill & Melinda Gates, and State Farm Companies foundations, Grad Nation (100 pages, PDF) includes evidence-based…
Resource type: News
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The six best U.S. cities for addiction treatment and prevention
Source: New York Daily News
Communities in Schools is an Atlantic grantee. by Dave Moore & Bill Manville BILL: In my Greenwich Village drinking days, everybody knew "Marvin." If you wanted a couple of tires for your car, maybe a new TV set, you called him and "put in your…
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Education Still the Pathway to Freedom
Source: The Washington Post
Original Source By Courtland Milloy In recognition of Black History Month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has presented a flattering economic sketch of black people in the United States. In this drawing by the numbers, we are seen as a relatively young and hearty workforce…
Resource type: News
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Cashing-In On Grades: Good Or Bad For Students?
Source: NPR
This NPR story features the Higher Achievement Program, an Atlantic grantee. Listen at NPR's website [17 min 49 sec] Tell Me More, June 2, 2009 · The Capital Gains program introduced cash incentives to many Washington, D.C., students as a way to boost their grades.…
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The Cost of Quality Out-of-School-Time Programs
Source: Public/ Private Ventures
This study by Public/Private Ventures provides estimates for the costs of operating a high-quality after-school or summer programme in the United States. P/PV is a grantee of The Atlantic Philanthropies. by Jean Baldwin Grossman, Christianne Lind, Cheryl Hayes, Jennifer McMaken and Andrew Gersick Funders and program…
Resource type: Research Report