Study Shows That Poor Gifted Students Have Worse Educational Outcomes Than Rich Gifted Students
NEW BOOKS Achievement Trap: How America Is Failing Millions of High-Achieving Students From Lower-Income Families, by Joshua S. Wyner, John M. Bridgeland, and John J. Dilulio Jr., finds that even academically talented poor students do not fare as well as their richer peers. The report looks at…
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Community Organizing for Social Change
NEW BOOKS Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community
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Using Sarbanes-Oxley as a Platform for Strategic Planning
NEW BOOKS Nonprofit Strategic Planning: Leveraging Sarbanes-Oxley Best Practices
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Tools to Help Nonprofit Groups Create Web Sites, Newsletters, and Magazines
NEW BOOKS Every Nonprofit’s Guide to Publishing: Creating Newsletters, Magazines & Websites People Will Read
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Conservative Foundations Are Effective in Supporting School-Voucher Programs, Study Finds
NEW BOOKS Strategic Grantmaking: Foundations and the School Privatization Movement, by Rick Cohen, says that conservative foundations’ support of projects to promote school vouchers “is strategic philanthropy at its best.” School vouchers provide government money to families to be used for private…
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Book Helps Charity Leaders Build Strong Organizations
NEW BOOKS A Guide to Achieving New Heights: The Four Pillars of Successful Nonprofit Leadership, by Dennis C. Miller, seeks to help nonprofit board members and officials strengthen their organizations. Mr. Miller, a charity consultant, focuses on four areas, or “pillars": creating relationships…
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U.S. Government Must Step Up to Rebuild Education in Gulf Coast, According to Report
NEW BOOKS Education After Katrina: Time for a New Federal Response, argues that the government has not done enough to support education in the aftermath of the devastating Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005. The report looks at how the hurricanes affected elementary- and high-school students in…
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Articles Explore How and Why to Support Equal Opportunities in Classrooms
NEW BOOKS Gender and Educational Philanthropy: New Perspectives on Funding, Collaboration, and Assessment
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Nonprofit Groups Can Take Advantage of Technology
NEW BOOKS Digital Giving: How Technology Is Changing Charity
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Nobel Prize Winner Discusses Social Business
NEW BOOKS Creating a World Without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
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