The following introduction is an excerpt from a Safe Routes to School National Partnership research article, read the full PDF available above __________________________________ Hey, baby!” By the time many girls…
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Click here for more.The Lawrence School is recognized as a leader among schools for children who learn differently. It took years — navigating crises and pushing boundaries — to get where the school…
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Click here for more.U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said last Tuesday that she advocated the expansion of training and apprenticeship programs to give students more choices than just attending four-year universities – this, however,…
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Click here for more.Superintendent Dorsey Hopson said Wednesday that more people could be fired and even face criminal charges as a result of a deeper investigation into the high rate of grade changes…
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Click here for more.The first thing an economist looks for in this kind of situation is earnings differences. I’ll concentrate on black and Hispanic faculty while leaving gender for another day. The simple…
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Click here for more.On an unseasonably frigid Thursday in November, Julian Vasquez Heilig, who is both a professor at California State University Sacramento and the California NAACP education chair, stood before an audience…
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Click here for more.Scott Gordon had just arrived in his job as provost of Eastern Washington University when an alumnus approached him at a meet-and-greet in the Skyline Ballroom of Spokane’s Hotel RL.…
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Click here for more.“I’m a math teacher, not a counselor. I’m here to teach math,” one teacher recently told a principal I was working with in an after-school program. The principal recounted this…
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Click here for more.When the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) awarded a $4 million grant to Friends of the Children, President Terri Sorensen knew she had an unprecedented opportunity. If she could raise the $9.4…
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Click here for more.Families that adopt troubled or high-needs foster kids in Colorado receive inconsistent and often meager financial support from a state program that lacks sufficient oversight, the state’s child protection ombudsman said in…
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Click here for more.So far 35 states tie some funding for public colleges to metrics like graduation rates or degree production. The Higher Education Act rewrite the GOP is advancing in the U.S. House…