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Kenton Kirby (right), head of Make It Happen, smiles with colleague David Grant (left) and a youth in the program. Credit: Make It Happen ______________________ By Samuel Lieberman NEW YORK — It was dismissal time. Everyone had left the …
A landmark trauma-informed education bill to address “chronic absences of students” in the state’s public schools was signed by Governor Kate Brown last week. The bill, H.B. 4002, requires two state education agencies to develop a statewide plan to address …
By Annie Waldman ProPublica, March 18, 2016, 12:19 p.m. Perhaps you remember Corinthian Colleges. It was the country’s second largest chain of for-profit colleges, before it collapsed into bankruptcy last year amid evidence of phony marketing and predatory loans. The …
March 1, 2016 Giving Foster Youth a Chance at College By Elaine Korry Growing up in Los Angeles, in a family unsettled by addiction and dysfunction, Justin Turner, 18, was convinced from an early age that college was not for …
Federal Education Law Delivers Vital Protections for Foster Youth By Rachel Velcoff Hults and Kate Burdick | February 22, 2016 Children involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems face countless barriers to educational success. Our historic failure to …
The Center for Financial Social Work is excited to announce that Reeta Wolfson, CMSW will be the keynote speaker at the 2016 Alabama Financial Education and Professional Development Summit. This free program, hosted by Financial Education Outreach in partnership …
By the end of George Makari’s engaging – indeed monumental – Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (W.W. Norton 2016: 652 pp.) one comes to understand that the modern mind is more ancient than most people believe and the …
Inclusion of children with disabilities in the classroom is nothing new — it’s been around since 1975, when the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was passed. The law calls for children with disabilities to be educated in the “least …
In a kickoff event for Education Week, several hundred people crowded into the fabulous Tishman Auditorium at the New School in New York City on Monday night to watch Paper Tigers, a documentary that follows six students during a school year …
At the Center for Youth Wellness policy convening on childhood adversity in San Diego last Thursday, I kept asking myself if we were having a new conversation or an old conversation, but with different people at the table. The fact that children who experience …
