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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Harold “Bud” Hodgkinson, former director of the Center for Demographic Policy at IEL, passed away on March 4, 2016. Below is a note about Bud by IEL president Marty Blank. Harold “Bud” Hodgkinson was one of a kind. He helped people love numbers – less in the more tehcnical way that is happening in today’s
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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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As co-chairs of the Coalition for Community Schools’ Superintendents Leadership Council, Teresa Weatherhall Neal from Grand Rapids, Mich., and Dr. Steven Webb from Vancouver, Wash., have seen the positive impact of community schools in their districts. They spoke with Marty Blank, president of IEL and director of the Coalition, about how community schools have helped
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As the president of Excelencia in Education, Sarita Brown is a tireless advocate for Latino success in higher education. Brown spoke with the Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP)—she was a member of the 1984 Texas cohort—and shared her thoughts on what policymakers and higher education leaders should know about Latino students and how they can
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