Education Archive
The Coalition for Responsible Community Development (CRCD) is a place-based community development corporation in the Vernon-Central community of South Los Angeles and is launching a new program to improve educational attainment among current and former foster youth. CRCD provides workforce development programming …
Before he arrived at Camp Smith, a Los Angeles County juvenile detention camp in Lancaster, Taylor Faatai couldn’t see a future for himself. “The person I was before … didn’t have a destination, and I didn’t want a destination,” Faatai …
Professional development in the out-of-school-time (OST) field has been on an evolutionary curve in recent times. There has been an emphasis on building a solid professional development system for OST that has all the components needed for high-quality professional development …
This is the second of two columns focusing on adoption subsidies. In the first column, I focused on the general need for more scrutiny on recipients of adoption subsidies. In this column I discuss the need to prevent abuse of …
Home-schooling your children has a plethora of benefits: from cultivating their minds to learn more than just exam answers, to showing them how education has a place in the real world. However, it can be hard to give your children …
Everyone, from kids to adults, dislikes sitting down to complete a standardized test. The crowded, stuffy rooms, the nubby, graphite pencils, the anonymous sheets of empty bubbles — it is a harrowing experience, and most American students must endure it …
Universities tend to be places that get a lot of focus when it comes to efforts towards social justice. There are undeniable issues affecting minority students and women in some colleges and specialisms, and this is something that student bodies …
May 2017Long Island, New York - Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition (HBCAC) is pleased to announce that we have received a grant award from the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) for our project titled Planting the Seeds of …
Quality after-school opportunities benefit children in many ways, but millions of disadvantaged youth don’t have access to good programs.
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed by President Obama on December 10, 2015, and a new toolkit released by the Legal Center for Foster Care and Education can help jurisdictions implement the changes mandated by ESSA. Amending the …
