Results List
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Picking Up Performance When the School Day Ends
Source: Edutopia
After-school mentors can keep middle school kids from dropping out. Original Source Citizen Schools, an Atlantic grantee, was chosen by Edutopia as part of their "A New Day for Learning" series. Visit the Edutopia website for the full feature about Citizen Schools, and material for creating similar…
Resource type: News
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€300m boost to third-level research to drive job growth
Source: Irish Examiner
A GOVERNMENT plan to invest €300 million in third-level research will provide facilities for more than 1,400 college researchers in a bid to drive future job creation. The fifth cycle of the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI) announced by Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe…
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Bringing light to the interface
Source: Suffolk Lenadoon Interface Group (SLIG)
Interface Communities Come Together for First Christmas Carol Service For many years the Stewartstown Road in west Belfast (Northern Ireland) was the focus for sectarian tension and violence between the small Unionist community of Suffolk and the surrounding largely Nationalist Lenadoon community. It was a…
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Northern Ireland's universities 'world leading'
Source: Belfast Telegraph
Some of the research by Northern Ireland's universities is world-leading, a report said today. Civil engineering, nursing and midwifery and electrical engineering were among subjects attracting the highest praise, a review by other colleges said. The University of Ulster (UU) and Queen's University Belfast (QUB)…
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Expansion of National Colleges Study Funded
Source: University of California, Riverside
RIVERSIDE, Calif. UC Riverside researchers have received a three-year, $390,060 grant from the Spencer Foundation to expand and update the Colleges & Universities 2000 study, which investigates patterns of continuity and change in four-year higher education institutions in the United States. A research team headed…
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Obama Pledge Stirs Hope in Early Education
Source: The New York Times
by SAM DILLON CHICAGO — It was the morning after the presidential election, and Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a national organization devoted to early childhood education, could barely contain his exultation. Mr. Melmed fired off an e-mail message to his board…
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Tracking a New Generation
Source: Newsweek
Recruiting starts next month for the largest long-term study of children's health ever conducted in the U.S. by Claudia Kalb American kids are about to get some much-needed attention. Next month, after 10 years of strategizing, researchers will finally start recruiting participants for the largest…
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Starting Over, With a Second Career Goal of Changing Society
By Steve Lohr Harvard kicked off a small but ambitious experiment this week that it hopes will become a new “third stage” of university education. For the student-fellows in the program, most in their 50s and early 60s, the goal is a second-act career in…
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East Meets West helps Da Nang's disabled
Source: Vietnamese News Agency (VNA)
The US-based organisation East Meets West (EMW) is to assist central Da Nang city in the implementation of a 480,000 USD project to help improve the quality of life for the city's disabled residents. An agreement to this effect was signed by EMW officials and…
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Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunities
Source: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
In the face of the nation's worst financial crisis since 1932, foundations are bracing to cope with assets that plunged as a result of Wall Street’s decline. New numbers from New Mexico suggest that foundations should turn to the underutilised strategy of supporting advocacy, organising…
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