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A Stronger Nation Through Higher Education
Lumina Foundation's yearly progress report on college attainment contains data to help you understand and address the college attainment challenges in your state, county or metropolitan area.
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Grantmakers for Education
Grantmakers for Education provides numerous resources related to effective education grantmaking, including an annual publication on trends in education philanthropy, a series of case studies, and a toolkit designed to help donors and small foundations spur change in public education.
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Funding Summer Learning Programs
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This webinar includes an overview of standards and tools available for assessing summer learning programs.
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Civil Rights Data Collection
The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), formerly the Elementary and Secondary School Survey, has collected data on key education and civil rights issues in our nation’s public schools since 1968. The 2011-2012 CRDC collection includes data from every public school in the nation. Access information at the school and district level.
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Coffee Talk: Indiana Department of Education, Outreach Division of School Improvement
Debbie Yates, Outreach Coordinator for Region 9 (Marion County), provides an overview of the Outreach Division of School Improvement and how it works to implement IDOE's community approach to educating children and building support systems for schools. Debbie talks about several particular initiatives (Hoosier Family of Readers, Family Friendly Schools, and STEM assessment/designation) and how foundations can get involved.
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Coffee Talk: The Polis Center
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Sharon Kandris, Director of Community Informatics at The Polis Center, discusses how Indiana foundations and their grantees can use community informatics (information and communication technologies).
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Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters
This report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation calls for a renewed emphasis on reading success by outlining the challenges, issuing recommendations and providing state-level data to help stakeholders rally around this critical call to action.
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Online Colleges in Indiana : Guide to School & State Data
Indiana is home to twenty colleges and universities that offer at least one fully online bachelor’s degree. Most of these schools also offer fully online master’s and doctoral programs. This resource provides a complete view of the online program landscape in Indiana so you can walk away understanding what each institution is really about and what makes each different.
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Analysis of Funding that Supports Early Childhood Programs and Services in Indiana
This memo identifies the type of funding, the source of funding, the funding recipients and how the funds are used (categorized by ELAC’s focus areas of accessibility, affordability and high quality).
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Wrap-Around Services and Work Readiness
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- Learn how foundations can support holistic efforts to help nontraditional students earn a high school diploma and move to the next step in their education.