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  • Scoring For Children Living With Domestic Abuse: The Joe Torre SAFE AT HOME Foundation

    When people think of Joe Torre, they picture a stoic manager who led the New York Yankees through 12 straight playoff seasons and to four World Series victories. As it turns out, quietly watching from the sidelines of tense situations may be a habit learned as a child. Torre grew up in a household terrorized by a violent father in the 1940s and ‘50s, he was a nervous child who dreaded going home if he saw his father's car parked outside. His childhood trauma was a well-kept family secret for years.Read more

  • Street Children Find Hope at El Shaddai

    Sylvestre Nzitukuze was a good soldier. He served in the Rwandan National Defense Forces until an inescapable vision tore him away to a new life. "I don't know where or how it came, but I knew I had to leave the army and help the street kids," he exclaims. 

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  • Conquest of the Word Masters: 826 Valencia Expands its Empire from Coast to Coast

    by Ann Simms

    Mac Barnett is turning a shampoo bottle over in his hands. The liquid inside is viscous, the color of blood. “We haven’t gotten all the kinks out yet. But we’re close,” he says, grinning mischievously.

    “Rasputin Baby Shampoo” is one ofthe 300 products that Barnett and his colleagues are developing for the Echo Park Time Travel Mart. (“El Dorado Solid Gold Scrubber Pads” and “Mammoth Chunks” soup are two more of the works-in-progress.) This store, once opened, will be the retail counterpoint to 826 LA, an educational wonderland for kids that’s been up and buzzing since March of 2005.

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  • The Edible Schoolyard: Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Foundation

    by Ann Simms

    In the summer of 1969, Alice Waters and a friend were traveling across the plains of central Anatolia in a tiny, beat-up Morris Minor. Waters had just completed her coursework at the Montessori Institute in London, where she was preparing to become a high school teacher. This trip to Turkey, along with the next year she would spend restaurant hopping in France, was to be her last hurrah before launching a lifelong career in education.

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Editor Blogs in Education

  • Public or Private School? Where to send Junior?

    Posted June 26th, 2008 by Kurt Schwengel

        You may already have your opinions on private and public schools and it probably depends on where you went and how it worked out for you.

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  • iKids: How to Teach them!

    Posted June 22nd, 2008 by Kurt Schwengel

         Many people, including myself, spend a lot of time knocking the American education system but let me tell you one place where I think they are doing alright or at least headed in the right direction.

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  • School’s Out For Summer!

    Posted June 13th, 2008 by Kurt Schwengel

    I wonder how many teachers would admit that one of the reasons that they became a teacher was to have their summers off. I don’t think most people envy teachers during the 10 month school year but I have to believe that there are an awful lot of people out there in the workforce who envy teachers during the summer months.

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    How Changes at the United Way May Affect Your Community

    Posted June 11th, 2008 by Skye Kilaen

    When I was in graduate school, one of my professors asked us which would be better: pulling drowning people out of the river as they float past, or going up the river to stop people from falling in? The United Way of America has recently announced a new 10-year campaign that essentially hopes to move upstream, addressing the root causes of social problems instead of the effects.

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  • Creepy Crawling Clickers

    Posted May 30th, 2008 by Natalie LaFontaine
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  • The Union Strikes Back!

    Posted May 30th, 2008 by Kurt Schwengel

    The Union Strikes Back!

    I think it’s safe to say that most teachers have really strong opinions about teacher’s unions.  I heard from a lot of people regarding my last blog about teacher's unions and I thought I would share some of the responses and comment on them.

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Recent Member Blogs in Education

  • Exceptional Children’s Foundation Hires New Director of Development

    Posted June 5th, 2008 by carolstevenson

    The Exceptional Children’s Foundation (ECF) has named Guy Shulman the new director of development to oversee all fundraising, branding, public relations and marketing activities.

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  • Help a Bald Brother Out!

    Posted May 28th, 2008 by Dorian Adams

    The Today Show introduced me to the “Stand Up to Cancer” initiative this morning.  It’s anchored by a terrific

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  • 25 Years of Experience—Changing Lives Overseas and at Home

    Posted May 15th, 2008 by ASCEND

    One of the compelling aspects of how ASCEND accomplishes its mission is the use of volunteers in combination with professional staff to accomplish ongoing sustainable programs. ASCEND offers volunteers the chance to participate in short-term expeditions of 1-2 weeks, or longer-term internships / fellowships of 2-18 months.

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  • Entrepreneurs Anonymous

    Posted May 14th, 2008 by Alyssa Royse

    Before getting the seemingly crazy idea to start JUST CAUSE IT, I never would have thought that I was someone who loved business. I mean, business? Aren’t business people those uptight men sitting in offices and doing, I dunno, boring business stuff?

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  • Empower Those in Need to ASCEND out of Poverty

    Posted May 7th, 2008 by ASCEND

    We extend to you our deep appreciation for your interest and involvement in the wonderful work that ASCEND does—changing lives for the better.

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  • Cupcakes and Childhood Obesity

    Fit or Fat - Childhood Obesity in America

    Posted May 6th, 2008 by Alyssa Royse

    I desperately want to be one of those people who is truly accepting of everyone else. Someone who helps each and every one of us accept our inner beauty, celebrate our individuality and revel in our individual power for joy exactly as we are, without looking to media depictions of love and beauty for validation. I want to be that person.

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