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The European Foundations’ Initiative on Dementia (EFID) launches the European Awards
by Werner Krüper A group of Foundations, composed of The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Fondation Médéric Alzheimer, the King Baudouin Foundation and the Robert Bosch Stiftung join their forces to launch the ‘Living well with Dementia in the Community – European Foundations’ Initiative on Dementia-Awards‘ in…
Author: Network of European Networks
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The Time Is Right to End ‘Zero Tolerance’ in Schools
By Gara LaMarche It is too early to know whether the current wave of school reforms will lead to lasting improvements in student achievement. But it is not too early to note that many of these reforms have a troubling consequence: a doubling-down on harsh, ineffective…
Author: Education Week
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Zuma's call to nurses
SANDTON – Nurses should invoke the spirits of their noble predecessors Florence Nightingale, Cecilia Makiwane and Henrietta Stockdale and restore the profession to its rightful place in society, President Jacob Zuma told a Nursing Summit. Two thousand nurses from around the country have converged on…
Author: Health-E
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Physical Discipline Has No Place in New Mexico's Schools
>>Watch the Video In all 50 states it is illegal to hit a prisoner, someone in the military or an animal yet over one third of the school districts in New Mexico still let staff physically discipline (paddle) children. Experts tell us that physical discipline…
Author: New Mexico Speaks
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Couple happy to play part in Ireland's 'big step'
By PAMELA DUNCAN WHEN BARRY Dignam and Hugh Walsh first met almost 20 years ago, homosexuality was still illegal; neither man envisaged then a time where their relationship would be legally recognised by the Irish State. Yet today, 17 years after they started going out,…
Author: The Irish Times
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Campaign for Nonviolent Schools: We Marched 2000 Strong
On March 30, the Campaign for Nonviolent Schools led a march of 2000 students, parents, teachers, workers and community members to call for education funding & nonviolent schools. Watch a video of the march. The crowd began forming at Juniper and Filbert streets around 3:30…
Author: Campaign for Nonviolent Schools
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Meet Australia's greatest philanthropist
Irish-American billionaire Chuck Feeney has donated $10 million to Australia’s premiere HIV research institute, the Kirby Institute. >>Watch the Video Transcript ALI MOORE, PRESENTER: Tonight in Sydney, Australia’s premiere HIV research institute has been renamed the Kirby Institute in honour of the former High Court…
Author: ABC Lateline
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2011 Budget Cuts: A Matter of Life and Death
Proposed budget cuts have spurred widespread national resistance in the form of protests, and in some cases, hunger strikes. Yesterday, several leaders of progressive organizations, including executives of MoveOn.org, SEIU, the Center for Community Change and ColorOfChange.org, announced that they too will be joining the…
Author: The Nation
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Pupils, teachers demand better schools
By Mogomotsi Magome Community organisation Equal Education (EE) has called on Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to urgently improve the condition of schools across the country. The organisation, including pupils and teachers, picketed at the Union Buildings on Thursday to “remind” Motshekga that she had…
Author: IOL News
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Phila. looking to decrease its reliance on use of out-of-school suspensions
By Kristen A. Graham and Dylan Purcell. The Philadelphia School District relies so heavily on suspensions that it excludes students from classes at a rate more than three times higher than the rest of the state. The district issued 46,552 out-of-school suspensions last year for…
Author: Philly.com
