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Educational Reform

Use Your Volunteer Time Wisely: Help Often, One Kid At A Time

Joel Arquillos | Posted 10.23.2009 | Impact

Read More: Tutoring, Literacy, Education, Volunteering, Educational Reform, Nonprofits, Academics, 826 Valencia, Teachers, Workshops, Tutors, Students, Learning, Volunteerism, 826la, Impact News
Joel Arquillos

What helps the young people we serve is one-on-one attention. If we're going to level the playing field for students attending public schools, it's essential for more volunteers to fill the gaps.

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Breaking Free of the Urban Education Plantation

Gerald Bracey | Posted 09.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Harlem, Geoffrey Canada, Educational Reform, Bruce Smith, Richard Gibboney, Obama, Duncan, Politics News
Gerald Bracey

I don't think that Geoffrey Canada has found the "ideal intervention" for Harlem kids (he'd be on his way to Oslo to get that Nobel if he'd done that), but I think his model is the way to go.

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Whom Will He Choose?

Martin Carnoy | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Investment in Education, Vouchers, Teacher Education, Charter Schools, Educational Reform, Secretary of Education, David Brooks, Linda Darling Hammond, Stimulus Package, Barack Obama, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama White House, Obama Secretary of Education, School Vouchers, Obama Education, Obama Appointments, Barack Obama Education Policy, President Elect Obama, Politics News
Martin Carnoy

With government as the investor of last resort, Obama has broad support to implement major changes in the educational, health care, and energy systems using federal money.

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