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Wednesday November 14, 2012

Youth Weigh In On Solutions to Their Own Economic Challenges

by Mamadou Ndiaye
In the contentious debate about how to fix America’s problems or even which problems to fix, the National Council of Young Leaders has offered a youth perspective.

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Wednesday November 7, 2012

One Unemployment Rate Does Not Fit All

by Mamadou Ndiaye
A newly released FSG publication, Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth proposes how communities across the country can improve the life trajectories of the nearly 20 percent of our 16- to 24-year-olds, who are not connected to either education or the workforce.

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Tuesday October 30, 2012

Response to Sarah Mosle's "Teaching Lessons"

by Clare Bertrand
In Sara Mosle’s Oct. 27 piece in The New York Times’ Opinionator column, Teaching Lessons, she writes: “Teachers can’t go it alone. They need sustained training and support using empirically tested methods in concert and collaboration with one another. This is how schools succeed.”

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