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Sunday, 22 November 2009 |
 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday announced its biggest education donation in a decade, $290 million, in support of three school districts and five charter groups working to transform how teachers are evaluated and how they get tenure.
A separate $45 million research initiative will study 3,700 classroom teachers in six cities, including New York, seeking to answer the question that has puzzled investigators for decades: What, exactly, makes a good teacher effective?
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 |
 The highly visible success of the stimulus program known as cash-for-clunkers induced a boom in vehicle sales this summer that clearly would not have happened otherwise.
Now, the Obama administration is looking at creating a new version of the program — this time for home weatherization.
One proposal, which would give households money to pay for weatherization projects that help cut carbon emissions, might be called “cash for caulkers.” Rahm Emanuel told the New York Times, “It’s one of the top things (the president) is looking at.”
The idea has a lot to recommend it...
(Read more in the NY Times)
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 |
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 Two Chicago nonprofits, together with the University of Chicago, unveiled a counseling and sports program Wednesday aimed at stemming chronic youth violence in Chicago's public schools.
Chicago is employing a growing array of efforts against youth violence – including a new $30 million program that tries to target the 1,200 kids most at-risk for violence.
(Read more at the CS Monitor)
Photo courtesy of Sun Star
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
 Small grants given directly to villagers have brought important changes to this corner of Afghanistan, offering a model for the country.
In Jurm, people have taken charge for themselves — using village councils and direct grants as part of an initiative called the National Solidarity Program, introduced by an Afghan ministry in 2003.
Before then, this valley had no electricity or clean water, its main crop was poppy and nearly one in 10 women died in childbirth... Today, many people have water taps, fields grow wheat and it is no longer considered shameful for a woman to go to a doctor.
(Read the article in the New York Times)
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
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 No longer locked in one big war, Iraq has become a land of a hundred little wars -- tribal disputes that lead to bloodshed. But, victory through negotiation is becoming more common, thanks to the mediation movement spawned by Harvard Law School guru Roger Fisher, coauthor of the 1981 book “Getting to Yes.’’ The Boston area has become a global hub for teaching conflict resolution theory and practice for uses in law, diplomacy, and business in farflung places.
A total of 73 municipal officials and tribal sheiks from across Iraq underwent intensive training from Conflict Management Group, the nonprofit consulting firm launched by Fisher in 1984 that is now part of the international development and relief group Mercy Corps.
(Read the report in Boston.com)
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