Posts Tagged ‘children’

STAMFORD, Conn. – More opportunities for jobs and education reform will help jumpstart Connecticuts urban areas, the state’s gubernatorial candidates told an audience Friday night. In one of their last public forums before next weeks election, Democrat Dan Malloy, Republican Tom Foley and independent candidate Tom Marsh promised a crowd of more than 250 in the auditorium of Stamford High School that the next governor will help spearhead state efforts to add more support for the states minority and poor residents

Saturday, October 30th, 2010 at 04:35 0 comments

It is 8:30 a.m. at De La Salle Academy , a private school in Manhattan for academically talented poor children, and classical music is humming through a boom box that harks back to the 1980s. Children are streaming up four flights of stairs and surrounding the school’s founder and principal, Brother Brian Carty, like moths fluttering around a light.

Monday, October 25th, 2010 at 06:10 0 comments

NEW YORK – Obama’s ambitious education agenda is in peril, as his allies face firing at the polls in November. Dana Goldstein on the shaky state of school reform.

Friday, October 15th, 2010 at 15:55 0 comments

Correction Appended With Michelle Rhee ’s decision to resign Wednesday as the Washington schools chancellor, the movement to shake up the nation’s public schools is losing perhaps its most visible leader. Enlarge This Image Alex Wong/Getty Images At a briefing, from right, Michelle Rhee, the departing chief of the Washington schools; Kaya Henderson, interim chancellor; Vincent Gray, likely the next mayor; and Mayor Adrian Fenty

Thursday, October 14th, 2010 at 07:20 0 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to make permanent a $2,500 college tuition tax credit that’s set to expire at the end of the year. The American Opportunity Tax Credit was included in the $814 billion economic stimulus bill Obama signed last year.

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 at 20:57 0 comments

President Obama created a grant program to copy his block-by-block approach to ending poverty. The British government praised his charter schools as a model. And a new documentary opening across the country revolves around him: Geoffrey Canada , the magnetic Harlem Children’s Zone leader with strong ideas about how American education should be fixed.

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 at 15:44 0 comments

By: pcpro.edu Online classes are meant for those who cannot give up their time with families and jobs. Balancing the both however, can be a challenge.

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 at 05:28 0 comments

CARLSBAD, Calif. – The suspect in a San Diego-area grade school shooting that left two young girls injured was not cooperating with investigators, police said, and the man’s neighbors described strange behavior in the months before the shooting. Brendan L.

Sunday, October 10th, 2010 at 00:56 0 comments

Women Don’t Want To Run Startups Because They’d Rather Have Children: Editor’s note: The following is a guest pos… http://bit.ly/b7nLYv

Saturday, October 9th, 2010 at 19:02 0 comments

MADISON, Wis. — They say money can’t buy happiness — but it can finance the research. When Richard Davidson, then a psychology doctoral student in the 1970s, told his advisers at Harvard that he planned to study the power of meditation, the scholars winced.

Monday, September 27th, 2010 at 05:40 0 comments