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Common Core State Standards
The third issue brief in IPA's series on education focuses on the Common Core State Standards, which have been adopted by Indiana and 44 other states.
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Pathways to College
The second issue brief in IPA's series on education delves into college readiness and how to ease the transition from high school to college.
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Project-Based Learning
The first issue brief in IPA's series on education takes a look at a promising approach to education that is taking root in Indiana.
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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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Confronting Systemic Inequalities in Education
This report from NCRP discusses how philanthropy can more effectively use limited resources to help reform and improve school systems, with specific focus on inequality in access and opportunities among underserved students.