Results List
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Philanthropy's Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline
By Kavitha Mediratta Last year, at the beginning of ninth grade, my son’s friend Emmanuel was suspended from school for bringing a brick to class. Emmanuel had found the brick in the schoolyard, and with the satirical wit of a 14-year-old, named it “Softie” and…
Author: American Educator
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Skills to Learn to Restart Earnings
Original Source By JOHN LELAND JUSTIN WILLIAMS worked as an engineer at Honeywell International for 31 years, and when he retired last April, he knew he could not afford to stop working. His home in suburban Maryland, on which he had spent his 401(k) savings,…
Author: The New York Times
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Embracing History to Make History
Clark College, one of five U.S. mentor colleges in the new Plus 50 Initiative, welcomes educational leaders with a visit to Fort Vancouver and a focus on history, tourism and second careers for older workers VANCOUVER, Wash. A visit to Fort Vancouver may result in…
Author: Clark College / Plus 50 Initiative
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Expansion of National Colleges Study Funded
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…
Author: University of California, Riverside
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Western Dakota Tech joins Plus 50 initiative
Original Source Western Dakota Tech has been selected as one of 15 two-year colleges to participate in an initiative to get older adults back to school and prepared for opportunities in work and community service. As part of the Plus 50 Initiative,” the school will…
Author: Rapid City Journal
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Nurses: The Critical Link in Improving Health Care for the Underserved
Jennifer Wilson, Bermuda’s Nurse of the Year for 2008, spends her days driving the Azmobile from one island school to another. She coordinates an island-wide asthma education programme for Open Airways, an Atlantic-supported organisation that has helped cut hospital admissions for asthma sufferers by nearly…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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L.A. Schools Moving Away From Zero Tolerance Policies
Students, parents and teachers staged a rally last month in front of the L.A. Unified Schools headquarters to urge the district and School Police Department to overhaul its old system of citations for students committing minor offenses. (Gary Friedman, Los Angeles Times / August 9,…
Author: Los Angeles Times
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Instead of retiring, seniors are REWIRING
by Mike McLean A job-skills program called Plus 50 that’s geared toward retirement-aged people wishing to remain in the work force is achieving early success at Community Colleges of Spokane and has been named as a model training program for other community colleges. CCS’s Institute…
Author: Journal of Business-Spokane
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The Fierce Urgency of Atlantic: Bending the Arc in Our Final Years
Thirteen years ago, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ founding chairman Chuck Feeney and our Board of Directors made the decision to complete our grantmaking by the end of 2016. That seemed a long time away. The distant target has now become next year. After extended deliberations during this…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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School Suspensions Lead to Nowhere Good: Commentary
Henninger High School hall monitor Shirley Doesey during a change of classes. Teachers say behavior is worse in city schools this year and the district isn’t doing enough about it. Meanwhile, study says district is suspending too many kids, and more black and Latino kids…
Author: Syracuse.com
