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Neighborhoods as engines for social, economic mobility – Harvard Gazette

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When educational achievement lags, reformers often ask why schools are failing and look to institutional solutions like testing, teacher preparation, and curriculum reforms.

But striving to ensure quality education for all in the classroom is just part of the answer, education and community development experts said Monday. The rest lies outside of schools, where children spend most of their time and where the divide between the nation’s haves and have-nots is stark — from access to basic needs like housing, food, and health care to enriching activities after school and during vacations.

“We as a society have thrown up

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Ohio Department of Health awards $6.89 million to address community conditions that impact health

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Ohio Department of Health awards $6.89 million to address community conditions that impact health

COLUMBUS – Ohio Department of Health director Bruce Vanderhoff, MD, MBA, today announced that ODH and its Office of Health Opportunity has awarded $6.89 million to 26 organizations to fund projects designed to address community conditions that impact health and improve the lives of residents in Ohio Health Improvement Zones.

The Ohio Health Improvement Zones are neighborhoods dealing with socioeconomic and demographic factors that affect the resilience of individuals and communities. Organizations who

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Financial Therapist

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What Is a Financial Therapist?

A financial therapist is a certified professional who provides therapy services with the goal of changing the way that clients think, feel, and behave in regard to money. Financial therapy is a relatively new field combining elements of financial advisory and therapy services.

Certified Financial Therapists (CFTs) aim to help clients address underlying sources of financial stress, modify their future financial behavior, and explore and change their relationship with money.

Key Takeaways

  • Financial therapists are certified professionals who work to change clients’ ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving about money.
  • Financial therapy draws on
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WHS principal announces two additions to administrative team

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WESTFIELD – Westfield High School Principal Charles Jendrysik has announced that two new assistant principals have joined the administrative team.

Dr. Tonia Bonner relocated with her husband to western Massachusetts from North Carolina a little over two years ago. She comes to Westfield High School with over 20 years in secondary education as a chemistry/physics teacher, general science teacher, middle school teacher and instructional coach, and as a high school assistant principal.

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Kindergarten is where the woke agenda begins in Portland’s public schools

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Editor’s note: The following column first appeared in City Journal. 

Portland Public Schools has launched a war against the “gender binary” and adopted a radical new curriculum teaching students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers” and begin exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.”

I have obtained a cache of documents from a source inside Portland Public Schools that exposes the nature of this curriculum. The lessons seek to turn the principles of academic queer theory into an identity-formation program for elementary school students.

The premise is simple: privileged white heterosexuals

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