Results List
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Fundraising halfway mark met
Source: Powell Tribune
Original Source Written by CJ Baker More than 60 years after its closure, the Heart Mountain Relocation Center is becoming harder to forget. Just below the grounds that once held nearly 11,000 Japanese-Americans sits the construction site of a new Interpretative Learning Center. The new…
Resource type: News
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Out-of-School Time Policy Commentary: “Speaking in One Voice”
Source: The Forum for Youth Investment
Out-of-School Time programmes in the United States can benefit from adopting easy and cost-effective common youth-, programme- and system-level measures, which are described in this issue brief by the Forum for Youth Investment. The Forum is a grantee of The Atlantic Philanthropies This commentary from…
Resource type: Research Report
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Trying to Save by Increasing Doctors' Fees
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By MILT FREUDENHEIM Cutting health costs by paying doctors more? That is the premise of experiments under way by federal and state government agencies and many insurers around the country. The idea is that by paying family physicians, internists and pediatricians to devote…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Grantees in Texas Work to End a Lethal Lottery
Source: Gara LaMarche
When I arrived in Austin, Texas, the day after Labor Day in 1984 to take up my post as Executive Director of the Texas state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, a 30-year old Yankee who’d never set foot in the state before my…
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Crime, Bias and Statistics
Source: The New York Times
Charles M. BlowBy Charles M. BlowDiscussions of the relationship between blacks and the criminal justice system in this country too often grind to a halt as people slink down into their silos and arm themselves with their best rhetorical weapons — racial bias on one…
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School Suspensions Lead to Nowhere Good: Commentary
Source: Syracuse.com
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…
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March 6th Event: Privacy and Safety in the Digital Age
Source: The Constitution Project
Privacy and Safety in the Digital Age: Location Tracking and Fourth Amendment ConcernsA Panel Discussion On January 23rd, a unanimous Supreme Court held in United States v. Jones that when the police attach a GPS device to an individual's car and use it to…
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A Voyage of Discovery - Children Learn to Share on Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland
Source: PIEE
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…
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Atlantic Fellows Poised As Transformational Future World Leaders Ensuring Social, Economic Equity
Source: Forbes
By Jackie Abramian [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="579"] The 2020-2021 AFSEE Residential Fellows in London. Photoshopped into the photo is the image of one cohort unable to travel to London from Colombia because of COVID restrictions. AFSEE[/caption] Once a year, mid-career change-makers, policymakers, researchers, activists, movement-builders…
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Doodle Den Is Tackling Inequality After School in Limerick
Source: The Irish Times
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Conor Neill (6) with his class in the Doodle Den in St Michael’s Infants School in Limerick. Photograph: Brian Gavin/Press 22[/caption] By Carl O'Brien A few weeks ago Siobhán Neill took her six-year-old son, Conor, to McDonald’s as a treat. She…
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