Results List
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CIS Takes Part in Aspen Institute Seminar
Original Source This year’s historic presidential campaign has evoked feelings of change and new possibilities, as our country explores the roles of gender and race not only in politics, but in society. Communities In Schools, long familiar with racial disparities in education, participated in a dialogue…
Author: Communities In Schools
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Programme Identifies How to Improve Children’s Literacy in Disadvantaged Communities
A major research programme has identified an effective approach to improve children’s literacy in disadvantaged communities – and recommended this approach become available to other communities wanting to improve early childhood literacy. Launching the Evaluation Report of Doodle Den, a children’s literacy programme run in…
Author: Childhood Development Initiative
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Letter from Belfast: In a Time of Strengthening Peace, Communities and Advocates Raise Their Voices for Social Justice
Time was, not too long ago, that sectarian violence ruled Belfast, but in recent years the bombs have largely fallen silent. The more rare outbursts of violence – such as the March killings of two British soldiers ambushed during a pizza delivery – have been…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Mid-Point Findings of National Evaluation Show Effectiveness of CIS Model
Original Source The first results to emerge from the Communities In Schools National Evaluation, an independent, third-party study, indicate that the CIS Model of integrated student services has a positive impact on school-wide outcomes. Based on an in-depth analysis of 1,766 CIS schools and comparative analysis of…
Author: Communities In Schools
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Communities in Schools Mentoring is a golden opportunity
Montgomery Herald Communities in Schools is an Atlantic grantee. by Linda Beaulieu The Golden Opportunity Mentoring Program truly is a golden opportunity for the 83 youngsters in grades four through eight who currently have mentors. CIS records from last school year provide hard evidence of…
Author: Montgomery Herald
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Editorial: Help from Communities in Schools
Original Source Another day, another flood of problems at a hard-knocks elementary school. A second-grader is burning with fever, but no one can find a parent. Freddie is embarrassed to turn in homework. Luis won’t leave after school because someone will beat him up –…
Author: The Dallas Morning News
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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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Communities deal with ageing populations
By Hong Thuy THANH HOA — The burden of bringing up two mentally disabled sons has become easier for 69-year-old war invalid Do Thi Mui since she joined an older people’s self-help club three months ago. A lonely and poverty-stricken widow, she often has to…
Author: Viet Nam News
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Youth camps, classes heated up summer
Original Source By Maureen Kelleher and Richard Muhammad As you get closer to the gym at Reavis elementary school in Bronzeville, the music, singing, clapping and chanting swells. Inside, Marisa Cordeiro, a capoeira instructor, leads children through exercises in the Brazilian martial art – using…
Author: Local Initiatives Support Corporation / New Communities Program
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Communities Fighting for Rights in Northern Ireland: You’re Not “On Your Own”
When Gerard McCarten, a butcher from North Belfast, steeled up his courage to testify before the local health authority about the suicide of his son Danny two years ago, the officials he was dealing with got up and opened the windows in the room onto…
Author: Gara LaMarche