The Promise Neighborhood Program is taking a counterintuitive approach to improve the academic performance of school kids in poor communities by focusing on their needs outside the classroom. NBC’s Richard Lui reports as part of the network’s continuing “Education Nation” coverage.
| Read more >The Promise Neighborhood Program is taking a counterintuitive approach to improve the academic performance of school kids in poor communities by focusing on their needs outside the classroom. NBC’s Richard Lui reports as part of the network’s continuing “Education Nation” coverage.
| Read more >The designs of three Tampa parks were recently honored at the Hillsborough County Planning Commission’s 30th Anniversary Community Design Awards.
| Read more >The Spurs' season may be over, but a new league in town is just beginning: The Midnight Basketball League, targeting young men on the East Side, holds its first games Friday.
| Read more >A new community center opens in the Sulphur Springs neighborhood of Tampa.
| Read more >How can someone who dropped out of school in ninth grade put her kids on the road to college? Charlotte Robinson doesn't exactly know the answer, but she is trying to be that mom.
| Read more >Place matters. And the Obama Administration has made it a priority to study just how much, such as how a community comes together to support residents, and how government, business and nonprofits can increase coordination to improve impact and effectiveness of investment.
| Read more >I asked at least 10 parents inside Marion-Sterling School on Thursday if they had heard of the "Promise Neighborhood," and all shook their heads no.
| Read more >Occasionally, the NPQ Newswire misses reports that don’t quite make it to the popular media but contain nuggets of information that Newswire readers might find useful. Such is the case with the “What Works Collaborative,” involving researchers from the Urban Institute, the Brookings Institution,...
| Read more >The U.S. Census Bureau’s announcement that slightly more than half the nation’s newborns are Latino, black, Asian, Native American or of mixed race is a milestone. The United States can glimpse its future, and it is in the eyes of a 5-year-old Latina, the smile of a 12-year-old black boy, the...
| Read more >We all need a little graduation inspiration, especially when it can feel like we're sending our graduates off on ice floes. So let me share my inspiration: the Time 100 list.
| Read more >The U.S. Census Bureau’s announcement that slightly more than half the nation’s newborns are Latino, black, Asian, Native American or of mixed race is a milestone. The United States can glimpse its future, and it is in the eyes of a 5-year-old Latina, the smile of a 12-year-old black boy, the...
| Read more >I am writing in response to “There is a duel within the war on poverty in Rockford”
| Read more >Charlottesville's City of Promise initiative hosted a reception Saturday night at Venable Elementary School to celebrate a program that will provide resources to students in nearby neighborhoods.
| Read more >A new local education initiative hopes to help more Charlottesville children obtain college degrees.
| Read more >Graduation will be under way for high school seniors in Bibb County this weekend. In 2011, 51 percent of Bibb County students graduated from high school, but at Southwest High School that rate was just at 38 percent.
| Read more >The new proposal will emphasize support services to transform neighborhoods into places where residents can flourish — including the cradle to college-or-career concept championed by Savannah-Chatham Youth Futures Authority and community partners in the Promise Neighborhood model, better...
| Read more >Jackson Triangle beat more than 200 other neighborhoods from 45 states to qualify for one of five “Promise” grants from the federal government. The $25 million, five-year grant is intended to address neighborhood issues that impact education including health, safety, and stability.
| Read more >The new proposal will stimulate support services to revolutionize neighborhoods into promising environments. These support services will include the cradle to college-or-career concept championed by Savannah- Chatham Youth Futures Authority and community partners in the Promise Neighborhood...
| Read more >The Promise Neighborhood Planning and Implementation Grants are now open for proposals from the Department of Education.
| Read more >A member of the executive planning committee, she is now working tirelessly to help prepare a proposal for a Promise Neighborhood implementation grant. If successful, the grant could bring in millions of dollars to improve Meriden’s inner city.
| Read more >He pointed to a UCLA study that reported students from poor socio-economic backgrounds but with strong arts backgrounds outperform the general student population academically. He also noted how the Department of Education is now stressing the arts in various education grant programs such as...
| Read more >Better schools, safer streets, healthier families — the residents who stand to benefit most from the $23.7 million Eastside Promise Neighborhood grant have heard it all before.
| Read more >Now, along comes a partnership of dozens of school, business, and community stakeholders to form The Albany Promise, billed as an effort to change a cycle that has seemed all but unbreakable. Its goal is nothing less than giving children in the city's poorest neighborhoods the same chance in...
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