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Cross-comunity shared teacher for NI schools
Children who attend two small mid-Ulster primary schools of separate religious traditions have become classmates through the first shared teacher to be appointed in Northern Ireland. There are just 65 pupils combined at Desertmartin Primary, a Church of Ireland maintained school, and Knocknagin Primary, a…
Author: UTV News
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Initiative Focuses on Early Learning Programs
The New America Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. by SAM DILLON Tucked away in an $87 billion higher education bill that passed the House last week was a broad new federal initiative aimed not at benefiting college students, but at raising quality in the early…
Author: The New York Times
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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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Grantees Welcome New Federal Guidelines Addressing Discipline in Schools
Atlantic grantees working for school discipline reform welcomed the federal government’s announcement of new school guidelines that discourage the use of zero tolerance school discipline polices. Daniel J. Losen, director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, called the action “huge.” “The guidelines put all…
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A Voyage of Discovery - Children Learn to Share on Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland
Children from 2 schools in Northern Ireland travelled to St Mary’s Primary School on Rathlin Island as part of a cross-community partnership. The partnership between the three schools is one of 11 schools partnerships in the North Eastern Education and Library Board’s Primary Integrating/Enriching Education…
Author: PIEE
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Schools sharing across the community in ground-breaking pilot scheme
The Fermanagh Trust Shared Education Programme is an Atlantic grantee. The new term in Fermanagh’s schools has got off to an exciting start, with teachers and pupils involved actively in a range of new shared education projects, under the Fermanagh Trust Shared Education Programme (FTSEP).…
Author: The Fermanagh Herald
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A Time to Serve
As the Constitutional Convention of 1787 came to a close, after three and a half months of deliberation, a lady asked Dr. Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic,” replied the Doctor, “if you can keep it.” –…
Author: Time Magazine
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Two Atlantic Grantees Featured on BBC's The One Show
Original Source This video clip features the work of two of Atlantic’s Reconciliation and Human Rights grantees in Northern Ireland – the Suffolk Lenadoon Interface Group (SLIG) and the Integrated Education Fund. The piece was aired across the UK on the BBC’s evening flagship programme,…
Author: BBC's The One Show
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Beyond the classroom
Original Source by Phuong Ly Middle-grade students at Reavis Elementary in Kenwood are learning Brazilian martial arts. Perspectives Charter Middle School at Calumet in Auburn Gresham wants to require students to learn to swim. Ames Middle School in Logan Square will have a garden and…
Author: Catalyst Chicago
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Buildings, Bridges and Big Bets
Chuck Feeney, with Cornell University President Frank Rhodes and Ed Walsh, Limerick president, at Plassey House in 1988. From Elizabeth, N.J., where our founder, Chuck Feeney was born and raised, you can follow the Elizabeth River into New York Bay, all the way across the…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
