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Helping Foster Kids Transition to Adulthood
Governing,
May 09, 2012
By now it is understood (and supported by several studies) that kids who age out of foster care generally wind up being less educated, more likely to engage in risky behavior and more likely to re-engage with human services and or criminal justice systems than other kids their age...
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Colleges Offer Incoming Freshmen a Summer 'Bridge'
Education Week,
May 08, 2012
On a placement test in his senior year of high school, Ruben Ortiz found out he was not ready for college-level math. His counselor suggested a summer "bridge" program at El Paso Community College to get up to speed...
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Out of Jail, and Into a Job
The New York Times' Opinionator Blog ,
March 28, 2012
About two months ago, Angel Padilla was walking near Madison Square Garden when the driver of a linen service truck started shouting and waving at him...
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Marriage Education No Sure Solution
The Washington Times,
March 18, 2012
Marriage education improves relationships and lowers levels of marital distress, but doesn’t deter divorce, at least in the short-term, says a new federally funded study...
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Do Small Schools Make A Difference?
CBS Philly Local Radio,
February 15, 2012
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - MDRC, a New York-based education and research organization, reporting on achievement of 105 of 123 New York’s “small schools of choice,” found that students grew more academically than those in the city’s larger public high schools...
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Perfect Storm Threatens Long-Term Unemployed
The Nation’s This Week in Poverty Blog,
February 10, 2012
In December, there were more than 13 million unemployed workers and about four people looking for work for every available job...
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Successes of Small Schools
The New York Times editorial,
February 08, 2012
School reform advocates are rightly encouraged by new data showing that New York City students at small, specialized high schools are more likely to graduate than students in large, traditional high schools...
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The White Underclass
Nicholas Kristof's column in the New York Times,
February 08, 2012
Persistent poverty is America’s great moral challenge, but it’s far more than that...
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Help Kids: Close Bad Schools
New York Post op-ed,
February 08, 2012
As the father of five children, no issue concerns me more right now than the quality of their education. That’s why I’ll attend tonight’s Panel for Educational Policy meeting and support its members’ voting to replace 25 long-struggling schools with better options...
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A Small School Thrives Within a Large One Full of Challenges
WNYC News Radio,
February 07, 2012
WNYC examines one small school, the Collegiate Institute for Math and Science, or C.I.MS., and explores why it is thriving while the larger school it replaced is on the path to closing...
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