The Roosevelt Union Free School District has been making changes by bringing the fun back into learning for its students. Led by Robert-Wayne Harris, the district superintendent, the district has been promoting a return of interest in school.
Mr. Harris does this by making a point: “When you do the right thing, you get rewarded, and [...]
Parasitic worms or helminthes live inside the body. Unlike parasites that live outside the body whose main threat is posed by the capacity to transmit diseases, parasitic worms cause debilitating effects from their mere presence in the body. Symptoms of worms include intestinal obstruction, vomiting, weakness, and stomach pains, all of which prevent children around [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News, education on June 8th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: education, healthcare, innovation, non-profit
The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation recently announced the release of Searching for the Study of Israel: A Report on the Teaching of Israel on U.S. College Campuses 2008-09, prepared by the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University.
An updated version of a 2006 report, Searching for the Study of Israel examines [...]
The Lumina Foundation has recently announced a series of four-year college grants totaling $9 million to seven states hoping to bolster higher education using dynamic new techniques. The foundation’s Making Opportunity Affordable initiative has awarded grants to Arizona, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas. The money will be used to design methods that reward [...]
Filed under: News, education on December 1st, 2009 @ 2:57 pm
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Through its Intensive Partnership for Effective Teaching program, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has recently donated nearly $335 million to promote effective teaching and student achievement nationwide.
The programs awarded include $100 million for the Hillsborough County Schools in Florida, $90 million to Memphis City Schools, $40 million for Pittsburgh Public Schools, and $60 million [...]
Filed under: News, Uncategorized on November 23rd, 2009 @ 8:00 pm
Tagged with: education, philanthropy
In this week’s New York Times magazine, the lead story concerns the battle for women’s rights in this century. While there’s little argument that countries in the first world have made huge leaps in the during that time, bringing the franchise to millions of women, expanding the number of women in the work force, and [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Philanthropy on August 19th, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
Tagged with: education, equality, funding, progress, thought, women's education, women's rights
This week the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation hosted its first annual benefit concert “Reeve Rocks” in New York. The foundation is at the forefront of philanthropic efforts to raise money and awareness for spinal injury research but has been suffering from something like an image crisis as of late due to the fact that [...]
Filed under: Community, Philanthropy on July 31st, 2009 @ 6:17 pm
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Doctor David Ludwig, a pediatrician, and Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition at New York University, spoke with U.S. News and World Report this week about the food industry and how junk food companies are misleading the public in their efforts to market “healthy” eating for children.
First, some background. The CDC released statistics earlier this year [...]
Filed under: News on July 31st, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
Tagged with: childhood obesity, children, education, food, Food Industry, health, Kraft, labeling, marketing, Nutrition, Pepsi, reporting, standardization
The Child Vision Campaign is a special program that I have developed. The initiative has established international partnerships with organizations that have extensive experience in the field of blindness prevention. Now, that experience and expertise, gained through working with hundreds of thousands of people, is being applied to building improved service delivery systems and programs [...]
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.