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Chinese Pre-Schools to Adopt NI Early Years Programme
Source: BBC News
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="624"] Thousands of pre-schools in China are to adopt an early learning programme developed in Northern Ireland.[/caption] Early Years, an organisation that works with young children, will train staff in thousands of institutions. Chief executive Siobhan Fitzpatrick said educators from China were…
Resource type: News
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The Urgency of Now: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males
Source: Schott Foundation for Public Education
This report from the Schott Foundation for Public Education, an Atlantic grantee, finds that only 52 percent of Black male and 58 per cent of Latino male ninth-graders graduate from high school four years later, while 78 per cent of White, non-Latino male ninth-graders graduate…
Resource type: Research Report
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Don’t Drop Out of School Innovation
Source: The New York Times
By Paul Tough. Last month, the Senate subcommittee that allocates federal education money weighed in on one such promising innovation, slicing, by more than 90 percent, the $210 million that President Obama requested for next year for his Promise Neighborhoods initiative. Mr. Obama first proposed…
Resource type: News
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Savvy Schools
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Community colleges are taking the lead in helping older adults find new directions -- and new jobs by KELLY GREENE Ted English, age 62, a restaurant owner in Rapid City, S.D., had been thinking about changing careers, perhaps taking a job in travel or tourism.…
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Plan to integrate key public services for poorer families
Source: Irish Examiner
by Niall Murray EDUCATION, health and welfare services may be more closely linked to provide an integrated service for poorer families under plans being considered by Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe. However, he has ruled out any merging of health and education agencies, even though the…
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Senate Hearing on Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline Shows Need for Federal Action to Reform School Discipline
Source: Dignity in Schools Campaign
Edward Ward, a youth leader with Chicago-based community organization Blocks Together, testified at the hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, on the school-to-prison pipeline.>>Watch the full hearingPositive Discipline Approaches Should Replace Suspension, Expulsion and ArrestWashington, DC - Today,…
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Co-ed classes benefit social learning
Source: iol
By Sinenhlanhla Gumede Keeping girls and boys apart in the classroom may be socially harmful to them, according to several educationists. Despite extensive research suggesting that both sexes do better academically and socially when they learn separately, educationists say mixed classes often adapt better after…
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Panel OKs new sex-education plan for schools
Source: The Associated Press
RALEIGH -- Sex education for North Carolina adolescents would be expanded to include giving parents the option of a curriculum that stresses abstinence but also discusses contraception under legislation that passed an early hurdle this week. The House Education Committee voted 32-21 along party lines…
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Make education an early priority in administration
Source: Houston Chronicle
Original Source By MIKE FEINBERG At the end of his stirring acceptance speech in Chicago on November 4, President-elect Barack Obama said that this is the time "to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids" and "to reclaim…
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Organization That Promotes Public Service by Older People to Break Into Two Groups
Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy
by Suzanne PerryExperience Corps, a program that recruits older people to mentor and tutor inner-city schoolchildren, is preparing to break away from its parent group, Civic Ventures, and establish itself as an independent charity.Experience Corps, which has grown from a pilot project in 1995 to…
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