“Montessori School OK’d For 2014 Start” This is Great News!

Kudos to Elm City Montessori School co-founders Eliza Halsey and Dave Low for their persistence and determination.   Kudos also to Kaye Harvey, director of the Montessori School in Fair Haven

The Montessori model has been “universally accepted” around the world as a method that “can serve all kids, and…

Weingarten Proclaims Victory In New Haven 

THE EDUCATION AGENDA - CRITICALLY IMPORTANT.  We applaud the New Haven Independent for its excellent reporting on this issue.

Excellent reporting by Melissa Bailey and the NHI. Regardless of what credits Randi Weingarten is claiming about NHPS, the agreements reached between David Cicarella, president of the NHFT, and the NHPS…

Every Year Thousands of Students Drop Out of High School Without Earning A Diploma.

FRONTLINE | Dropout Nation…

Study: Few Children Meet Physical Activity and Screen-Time Guidelines 

Education Week, Bryan Toporek, 01/07/2013 …

The Impact of Trauma on Children’s Lives, the Need for Safe Neighborhoods, A Good Education AND A Chance to Realize the American Dream are the Real Cliffs Many American Children Face Every Day.

Please read more in the Huffington Post linked below.…

October is Domestic Violence Awareness  Month.  Education is Key to Awareness and Prevention.

 The 24-hour toll-free hotline to report domestic violence in CT is 888-774-2900.  Confidential assistance is available, free of charge.

The Regional Center for Domestic Violence Services will hold a conference on “The Lethality of Domestic Violence” on October 19…

Sept is Ovarian Cancer & Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

We at OneWorld Progressive Institute encourage you and your loved ones to learn all you can about both of these cancers.

• We do not yet know how to prevent getting these cancers; it is important that we do all we can in terms of learning signs and symptoms.
• Most cancers can…

WHEN PARENTS AND TEACHERS WORK TOGETHER POSITIVELY ALL STUDENTS BENEFIT. IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO REAL SUCCESS!

As we start a new school year, OneWorld Progressive Institute reminds parents, guardians, and advocates for children, that when parents and teachers work together in cohesive teams students benefit greatly.   In one of OneWorld's extremely successful  "EDUCATION WORKSHOPS" 14 parents and teachers worked with retired…

Educating the NET Generation.

This book will help educators make sense of the many patterns and behaviors that we see in the Net Generation but don’t quite understand.

http://www.oneworldpi.org/blog and http://www.oneworldpi/education/education_videos.html

In a Policy Research Report done by Russell J. Skiba, Robert S. Michael and Abra Carroll Nardo and issued by Indiana Education Policy Center in June 2000, titled The Color of Discipline, the researchers pointed out things we knew to be…

New Haven, CT parents can find a lot more information about the school choices you have by reading our 1/9/12 schools information blog at: http://oneworldpi.org/blog/

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http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/A_stronger_nation.pdf

Based on an analysis conducted by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, a much larger proportion of jobs in the U.S. will require higher education — even in the near term. This analysis — Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018— shows that fully 60 percent of…

www.bankofamerica.com/grantmaking and search: Katharine Matthies Foundation

Program Type: Education; Health; Human Services

Area Served: CT

Proposal Due: May 1

Restrictions: Lower Naugatuck Valley

Mission

The Katharine Matthies Foundation was established in 1987 to support and promote quality educational, human services, and health care programming for…