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Remember that old commercial, “You’ve got chocolate in my peanut butter! You’ve got peanut butter in my chocolate?” Put aside the unlikely w...
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Follow @alevere Can you imagine a child in preschool with her own bank account? How might she feel as she takes a trip to the local bank or credit uni...
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Follow @SarahCHaight Last week I had the privilege of attending The Atlantic Presents the Shriver Report LIVE in Washington, DC, where a remarkable mi...
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A major strategy of Ascend is to elevate two-generation programs, which provide opportunities for and meet the needs of vulnerable children and their ...
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Numerous studies over the past two decades show that parents’ educational attainment and their involvement in their child’s education leads to gre...
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Follow @SarahCHaight Above, participants at the Summit discuss public-private partnerships in rural America A few months after his January 1964 State ...