Rather than lobby the State Board of Education to create reform in the public school system, Steve Barr uses grassroots political tactics to motivate families to demand change. A co-founder of Rock the Vote and former Americorps program manager, Barr founded Green Dot ...
Urban arts programs often build confidence and agency among youth who are disheartened by — or disconnected from — public schools. Over the next few weeks we'll be presenting a series on Art and Urban Youth, featuring interviews with leaders in the field. ...
The Pangaea Project arranges overseas learning experiences for low-income high school students from Portland, Oregon. In the eight-month-long program, students meet social entrepreneurs and activists working on issues related to justice, equality and sustainability. They visit sustainable copper mining projects in Ecuador and ...
Urban arts programs often build confidence and agency among youth who are disheartened by, or disconnected from, public schools. Starting today, and over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting a series on Art and Urban Youth, featuring interviews with leaders in this ...
Five-year-olds from low-income communities have one-quarter the vocabulary of their more affluent peers, and half of them enter first grade as much as two years behind in preschool skills. That’s a severe handicap, which will persist for life unless something powerful intervenes. That's ...
Urban arts programs often build confidence and agency among youth who are disheartened by -- or disconnected from -- public schools. Over the next few weeks we'll be featuring a series on Art and Urban Youth, featuring interviews with leaders in this field. ...
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff believes that American children don’t get enough time to play and that it’s negatively impacting their development. With joint appointments to the Departments of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Delaware, Dr. Golinkoff’s work has centered on the questions ...
Urban arts programs often build confidence and agency among youth who are disheartened by or disconnected from -- public schools. Starting today, and over the newt few weeks, we'll be featuring a series on Art and Urban Youth, featuring interviews with leaders in ...
Foster care kids don’t get many breaks. Imagine being abandoned by or forcibly separated from your parents, and then having to adjust to life in a new family or within an impersonal, bureaucratic system Some 30,000 young people age out of foster care ...
Aleta Margolis, founder and executive director of the Center for Inspired Teaching, believes all kids have an innate desire to learn. She also believes our schools are beating it out of them. As a teacher, Margolis rejected the idea of trying to motivate ...