This spring, 14 Elementary Division families opted to”Give Another Child a Chance.” On behalf of our financial aid recipients, their families, their classmates, and their teachers, “Thank you!” ATDP offers need-based financial aid for struggling families, and with your support, we are able to continue serving these deserving students during tough times. Find out more about giving to ATDP.
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Unlikely Twins: Making Peer Effects Explicit
Public mass transportation policy is a career path for two ATDP alumni. Their post-secondary education and career paths are as similar as their pre-collegiate lives were dissimilar, until each came to ATDP.
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Looking at our students and their outstanding accomplishments, as well as our teachers and the joy they derive from working with students who love to learn, we know these are “the best of times.” Seeing in ATDP so diverse a group of young people, who otherwise are unlikely to have met, learning together and forming […]
Read More →Friends Donate in Memory of Dr. Gary Griffin
This past spring, ATDP lost one of its best friends when Dr. Gary A. Griffin passed away. Dr. Griffin was an internationally respected educator, former dean at the University of Illinois, professor emeritus at Teachers College, Columbia University, and passionate advocate of rich learning for all children. Upon his passing, his sister Dena Griffin requested […]
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The 1995 photo of Nadia Hernandez and Laurie Mireles was taken during study break, during one of the many summers they came from Coalinga-Huron to learn and make friends. We don’t have a current photograph of Ms. Hernandez, who has since earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees and is a credentialed teacher in the Central Valley—close […]
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ATDP supporter Joyce Ng and her neighbors exchange dog-walking duties when they go on vacation and donate to ATDP the funds they would otherwise have paid a dog walker. It has come to hundreds of dollars over the years—and is also part of the reason that Joyce and her neighbors are so aerobically fit! As […]
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