IEL hosted its 52nd Education Policy Fellowship Program Washington Policy Seminar, convening 300 EPFP Fellows from 17 sites across the country—the highest WPS attendance ever.
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Today, IEL and the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) hosted the second annual Samuel Halperin Lecture and Youth Public Service Award. The lecture and youth award serve as an ongoing tribute to Sam Halperin, a former IEL president and AYPF founder who dedicated his career to advancing education, workforce, and youth policy. This year, the
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This year marked a new level of engagement for IEL at the centennial meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). AERA’s theme was “Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies.” IEL hosted a pre-conference workshop about what it means to be community scholars and use activist scholarship and an AERA presidential site visit that gave
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The American Educational Research Association awarded IEL board member John Merrow its first-ever Excellence in Media Reporting on Education Research Award.
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IEL and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) announced the 2016 Meade Fellows: Michael Figueroa and Pei Pei Liu, both HGSE doctoral candidates.
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Lead is recognized as the single most significant environmental health threat to America’s children, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s just released a report providing tools and resources to schools and early childhood education facilities.
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On Friday, April 15, 2016, The American Youth Policy Forum and IEL will host the Samuel Halperin Lecture and Youth Public Service Award, featuring national education policy expert Michele Cahill.
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The IEL-led National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth recently released By Youth, For Youth: Employment, a youth-driven, youth-friendly guide to exploring careers and preparing for, landing, and keeping a job. The guide includes tips, resources, and checklists related to finding the right job, preparing a resuming, acing an interview, disability disclosure and accommodations, keeping
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On December 29, 2015, the U.S. District Court in Oregon awarded a landmark settlement that will impact almost 8,000 workers with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the state. The settlement addresses the claim that these workers with disabilities were unnecessarily segregated into sheltered workshops, where they receive sub-minimum wage pay, instead of receiving supported employment
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Broome County Promise Zone in upstate New York is one of the Coalition for Community Schools’ many partners and is working to build a countywide community schools network to support children, families, and neighborhoods. The Coalition spoke with Luann Kida, community schools director for Broome County Promise Zone, about the initiative’s partners and milestones, how
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