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• Groundbreaking Study Confirms BELL Summer Program Featuring Houghton Mifflin Curriculum Increases Children's Reading Skills

  - 2006-10-12

  BOSTON -- The Building Educated Leaders for Life BELL Summer program featuring Houghton Mifflin curriculum significantly increases low-income children's reading skills, according to a new Urban Institute study. Following a rigorous evaluation of children enrolled in BELL Summer in New York City and Boston, researchers concluded that children in the...

  Tags: INTERNET, Leadership, SALES, Strategy, Urban Institute

• Family Well-Being, Public Policy, and Economic Growth: Lessons from History and Insights for the Future

  - 2006-09-14

  News Advisory: What: A policy education seminar sponsored by the National Academy of Social Insurance When: Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2-5 p.m. Where: National Press Club, 13th Floor Ballroom, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C. Speakers Include: -- Peter H. Lindert (University of California-Davis) -- William E. Spriggs...

  Tags: Brookings Institution, FINANCE, George Washington University, Insurance, Strategy, Urban Institute

• Census data from GeoLytics.(Industry News)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-03-01

  The CensusCD Neighborhood Change Database NCDB, mentioned in ONLINE's May/June 2003 "Industry News section," is a proprietary product of GeoLytics, Inc. and was developed in conjunction with the Urban Institute and Rockefeller Foundation. Although based on U.S. Census data, it is not a government product. The...

  Tags: Strategy, Urban Institute

• Management compensation disclosures in private colleges' and universities' forms 990: reporting strategies and donor reaction

  - 2004-01-01

  ABSTRACT The Internet presence of private colleges' and universities' Forms 990 and their disclosure of top management's compensation amounts have led to fears of declines in donor contributions to these institutions. This paper explores donor reaction to two possible reporting strategies to counter negative perceptions: a high measure of...

  Tags: Benefits, compensation, financial, strategy, Urban Institute

• North Carolina's Tobacco Settlement Funds Study of Motorsports' Impact There.

  - 2003-12-17

  By Diane Suchetka, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 17--CHARLOTTE, N.C.--How much money does the motorsports industry bring to North Carolina? What kinds of incentives will keep it here? What will help it grow? ...

  Tags: Strategy, tobacco, Urban Institute

• Business Barometer Charts Growth in Charlotte, N.C., Region.(Originated from The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.)

  - 1996-03-05

  CHARLOTTE, N.C.--Mar. 5--The Charlotte region bucked the sluggish national economic trend last year and continues to grow at a steady pace. That was the bottom line Monday of the "Charlotte Region Business Barometer," a new quarterly report being issued by the Carolinas Partnership and the...

  Tags: Charlotte, FINANCE, partnership, Strategy, Transportation, Urban Institute