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Caring when it counts
Source: Irish Independent (Supplement)
Original Source by Barbara Harding DEATH is a frightening subject that few of us like to think about, never mind discuss, but it comes to us all eventually and often in an unexpected manner. Ensuring our environment offers us grace, dignity and respect in our…
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Middle School in the U.S.: Too Often the Missing Link in the Chain of Student Success
Source: Gara LaMarche
The familiar sounds of the famous Mexican songs “Cielito Lindo” and “Los Machetes” filled the air last Wednesday morning at Orozco Community Academy in Chicago, as eighth grader Adan Ramirsez strummed his guitarron with fellow students in the school’s new Mariachi band before an invited…
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Atlantic Philanthropies Awards $18 Million for Chicago Middle-School Initiative
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Atlantic Philanthropies has announced a four-year, $18 million grant to support a five-school effort designed to help middle school students in the Chicago Public School system succeed in high school and graduate. Chicago is one of up to four sites nationwide selected to participate in…
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PM Dung meets Ireland's leader, vows to bolster ties
Source: VietNamNet Bridge
Dung was emphasising co-operation between the two countries based on agreements' signed during his recent visit to Ireland. He thanked Ireland for its aid in development for the next three years. He also confirmed that Vietnam would work with Ireland in effectively managing development projects.…
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Fritz Schwarz to Head The Atlantic Philanthropies Board; Two New Board Members Named
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
New York, July 3, 2008The Board of Directors of The Atlantic Philanthropies has elected Frederick Fritz A. O. Schwarz, Jr., as chairman and appointed two new board members. The two new board members are Cecilia Munoz, Vice President of the National Council of LaRaza, based…
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Teach For America, Eli Lilly Launch Joint Program in Indianapolis
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Teach for America and Eli Lilly and Company have announced the launch of a program to support new teachers working in low-income communities in Indianapolis. Teach for America expanded to Indianapolis this fall, bringing in forty-eight young teachers to work in Indianapolis Public Schools. The program…
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Springfield greatly expands summer school
Source: The Republican
Springfield greatly expands summer school By MARLA A. GOLDBERG SPRINGFIELD - The School Committee has voted to substantially expand summer school for students finishing the fifth and eighth grades who fail Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests. The new program, to run eight hours a day…
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Dropout-Prevention Program Sees to The Basics of Life
Source: The Washington Post
Original Source By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer Word was getting around about the new problem solver on campus. So the mother tracked her down one recent day in a makeshift office on the second floor of a Southeast Washington public school. "I don't…
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Teaching Kids Whole-Life Skills
Source: Washington Post
At the Arts and Technology Academy in Northeast, sex education is taking a distinctly different tack. Moving far beyond anatomy, educators at the charter school are using what they call an "above the waist" approach to help prevent teen pregnancy. Teacher Willa Reinhard walks around…
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Families 'locked in poverty cycle'
Source: Irish Times
Better education levels and more economic resources mean we have an awesome responsibility to ensure that children of all backgrounds benefit from "the rising tide", President Mary McAleese said yesterday. She paid tribute to the work of staff at a Galway-based family research centre established…
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