Following | Foster Care, Education | June 23, 2016
How Children in Foster Care Could Benefit from the New Federal Education Law
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Following | Talent Development Secondary, Education | June 22, 2016
Can ‘Early Warning Systems’ Keep Children from Dropping Out of School?
Education reporter Emma Brown highlights in The Washington Post new findings that Talent Development Secondary’s Diplomas Now program improves low-income kids’ performance in elementary and middle school, increasing the likelihood they will graduate from high school.
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Following | Evidence and Evaluation | June 17, 2016
A Federal Architecture to Do What Works
Former directors of the Clinton and George W. Bush White House Domestic Policy Council lend bipartisan support to evidence-based funding.
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Following | Nurse-Family Partnership, Early Childhood | June 15, 2016
Saving Tiny Tim―Pediatrics and Childhood Poverty in the United States
Dr. Perri Klass argues in the New England Journal of Medicine that pediatricians have a responsibility to treat the ill effects of poverty on children.
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Following | Nurse-Family Partnership, Early Childhood | June 7, 2016
The U.S. Is Failing in Infant Mortality
A professor of pediatrics stresses in The New York Times that health care is of life-or-death importance for low-income kids.
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Following | Education, Communities In Schools | June 6, 2016
“Toxic Stress” in the Classroom
Two writers advocate in The Washington Post adopting a public health approach to helping children of poverty succeed in school.
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Following | Justice and Crime, PACE Center for Girls | June 4, 2016
PACE Gives Girls a Chance to Change the World
CEO Mary Marx describes in the Fort Myers News-Press how PACE birthed and leads a transformative movement that helps young women overcome poverty, abuse and involvement in crime.
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Following | Justice and Crime, Center for Employment Opportunities | June 3, 2016
How to Help Former Inmates Thrive
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin commends CEO as he outlines in The New York Times five ways to reintegrate the incarcerated into society.
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Following | Evidence and Evaluation, Communities In Schools | June 2, 2016
Private Innovation, Public Funding, and What Comes Next
Investing in an evidence-based model that changed education policy and allocation of Federal funds.
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Following | June 2, 2016
Pay-What-It-Takes Philanthropy
Funding nonprofit operations requires a recognition of different cost structures for different nonprofits.
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