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How Newark Is Reaching Out To Its Youth

As the Dodge Foundation shifts its focus this time of year to our Education grants, Education Program Director Ross Danis notes the work of an organization in Newark helping young people succeed, even...

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An Alternate Route to Alternate Route

Ross Danis, Program Director, Education If there is a silver thread in this dark economic cloud, it is the potential to raise the number and the quality of teachers working in high need disciplines...

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Closing the Creativity Gap

Ross Danis, Program Director, Education You may hear the mention of a number of “gaps” when people are talking about education: the achievement gap between various income groups and races; the gap in...

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Creating Leaders…It Doesn’t Happen By Accident

Wendy Liscow, Program Officer I remember distinctly the moment I knew that the moniker “leader” could apply to me.  I was a sophomore in high school, and I had signed up to help with costumes for a...

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Thinking about Philanthropy – and Justice

David Grant, President and CEO I have been reading Michael Sandel’s book Justice, which stems from his popular course of the same name at Harvard.  In between chapters over the weekend, I have been...

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Poetry in the Classroom: Listening to Poetry

From Homer to Hip Hop   Concept: In The Sounds of Poetry, Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky writes that the reader’s body is the medium of the poem: not the page, the human body. If you think...

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Poetry in the Classroom: Giving Voice

The Poetry Read-Around   CONCEPT: Building on last month’s “Listening to Poetry” activities, “Giving Voice” opens up the experience of listening to poems aloud by inviting everyone in the room to...

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