Monthly Archives: May 2008

News You Can Use, 5/30

Education Week, 5/27 School-based reward programs that offer students such incentives as cash, free MP3 players, or other gifts appear to produce improved reading achievement across grade levels, preliminary findings from an ongoing research project suggest. The analysis, which looked … Continue reading

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JVA’s News You Can Use, 5/5

Philanthropy News Digest, 4/24 Giving by corporate foundations increased 6.6 percent in 2007 to an estimated $4.4 billion, a new summary report from the Foundation Center (http://foundationcenter.org/ ) finds. And looking ahead, 54 percent of the corporate foundations surveyed expect … Continue reading

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