Results List
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Supporting Initiatives By and For Women Is Critical To Achieving Social Justice
In their new book, “Half the Sky,” Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn assert that there can be no social or economic justice, or human rights progress around the world, that does not have women and girls at its core. It’s a…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Tricky Road Ahead for Innovation Fund
Original source Teach for America and Grantmakers for Education are Atlantic grantees. By Erik W. Robelen Federal education officials will face a variety of obstacles in running a $650 million innovation fund, from an expected flood of applications and concern about favoritism in picking winners,…
Author: Education Week
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Newsmakers: Richard Barth, Chief Executive Officer, KIPP Foundation
Original Source KIPP and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees. Richard Barth, Chief Executive Officer, KIPP Foundation The Obama administration has thrown down the gauntlet to educators and legislators to fix “an education system that used to be…the best in the world, and no longer…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Neighborhoods, Social Capital and Schools
Original Source Principal Michael Johnson of Reavis Elementary, shown here with some 6th-graders, is working hard to create cohesion among his staff and build bridges between his school and its neighborhood. According to research discussed at the kickoff of this year’s School Policy Luncheon series,…
Author: LISC/Chicago's New Communities Program
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Push to register felons to vote could aid Obama
by DIONNE WALKER and MIKE BAKER Undaunted by the heat, James Bailey spent his late-summer afternoons walking Virginia’s bleakest neighborhoods on the hunt for ex-cons each a potential voter who might cast the decisive ballot in this hotly contested state. Finding them isn’t the hard…
Author: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
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Choosing Long-Term Care: Advice From an Expert
by Jane Gross For many of us, elderly parents and adult children alike, nothing is more complicated or consequential than understanding the differences between the many available permutations of long-term care, choosing which is most appropriate for our families and figuring out how to pay…
Author: The New York Times (The New Old Age Blog)
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Choosing Long-Term Care: Advice From an Expert
Original Source By Jane Gross For many of us, elderly parents and adult children alike, nothing is more complicated or consequential than understanding the differences between the many available permutations of long-term care, choosing which is most appropriate for our families and figuring out how…
Author: The New York Times
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A Decline in Uninsured Is Reported for 2007
by IAN URBINA WASHINGTON – After climbing steadily for six years, the number of Americans without health insurance dropped by more than a million in 2007, to 45.7 million, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. The drop was the result of growth in government-sponsored health insurance…
Author: The New York Times
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Workers using law to fight back on ageism
by Caroline O’Poherty WORKERS spurned by ageist employers are fighting back with anti-discrimination law. Age discrimination is now the most common reason employees seek help from the Equality Authority to force bosses to comply with the Employment Equality Act. Niall Crowley, chief executive of the…
Author: Irish Examiner
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Confusing ballot designs still plague elections
Original Source By DEBORAH HASTINGS AP National Writer The solution should have been a no-brainer, voting experts say. After all, it was a badly designed ballot that enflamed the 2000 election meltdown and introduced the vagaries of chads to the political lexicon-pregnant, hanging and otherwise.…
Author: AP