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By Maureen Kelleher.  For many Chicago middle school students, immigration reform isn’t an academic abstraction. Some of them are undocumented, or have friends and classmates who are, and they’re apprehensive about what life beyond the 8th grade holds for them. This was abundantly clear earlier…

On Saturday, August 7th at Orozco Academy in Chicago, more than 400 youth, parents, and community members came together to support comprehensive immigration reform. Let by teams of youth from each of the five Elev8-Chicago sites (Ames/Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Marquette/SouthWest Organizing Project, Orozco/The Resurrection…

Elev8 is a community-based initiative that brings together schools, nonprofits, philanthropy, parents and members of the community to ensure that students have the resources they need to succeed in school and in life. Implemented in four locations nationwide, the initiative is designed to improve educational,…

by Catherine Gewertz Under enormous pressure to prepare students for a successful future-and fearful that standard school hours don't offer enough time to do so-educators, policymakers, and community activists are adding more learning time to children's lives. This issue is hot right now, said Bela…

Original Source Higher Achievement, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that provides middle school children from underserved areas year-round academic enrichment programs, has announced a three-year, $3 million grant from Atlantic Philanthropies to help expand its out-of-school-time (OST) programs to Baltimore. The grant will enable the organization,…

In an effort to inform the growing dialogue on school discipline, this report examines trends in suspensions in New York City over an 11-year period (2006-07 to 2016-17) for middle school and high school students. The report reveals that while suspensions on the whole fluctuated,…

Watch four high school seniors reminisce about their middle-school experiences with Elev8, a community schools initiative helping to prepare sixth- through eighth-grade students for high school and beyond. Through the Elev8 program, these students participated in after-school activities, used the health centers built at their…

Students from high schools and middle schools across the country will travel to Washington this weekend to join administration officials and education policy leaders for the U.S. Department of Education's “Voices in Action: National Youth Summit,”taking place at Howard University on Saturday, Feb. 26. The…

Atlantic Philanthropies has awarded $12 million to help implement the Elev8 program in Baltimore, the Baltimore Examiner reports. Administered by East Baltimore Development Inc., the Elev8 Baltimore project is designed to improve educational and social outcomes for middle grade youth and their families. The grant…

I remember covering poverty-stricken schools. Sitting in classrooms in which the teachers were disillusioned or killing time, meeting parent volunteers unable to read to the class and children who appeared rather hopeless.It's bleak.Of course, there are always a few bright spots, and journalists love to…