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America’s Skills Challenge: Millennials and the Future
The Education Testing Service takes a troubling look at the state of the upcoming generation's competency in literacy, numeracy and problem solving...
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Wired to Learn: K-12 Students in the Digital Classroom
This new white paper prepared by the Center for Promise at America's Promise Alliance examines the efficacy and scope of digital learning...
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1.4KWhy Do Low-Income Kids Suffer So Much Summer Learning Loss?
Call it summer learning loss, summer slide or brain drain. The loss of critical reading and math skills among children during the...
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1.5KInnovative Summer Learning Program Expands Kids’ ‘Horizons’
CHESTERTOWN, Md. — Jack the Beagle proved a big hit in Randy Decker’s fourth-grade class. Decker’s students loved reading to the dog,...
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1.7KIn Brooklyn, Green Space With Nowhere to Play
NEW YORK — Down a long hallway, through electric blue double doors, the squeaks of young people’s sneakers echoed from P.S. K753’s...
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2.3KCatching Emotional and Developmental Problems in Homeless Children
A look inside the state’s homeless shelters quickly reveals a sobering fact — many residents are children. And a substantial number of...
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Surviving the Streets of New York: Experiences of LGBTQ Youth, YMSM, and YWSW Engaged in Survival Sex
This new study by the Urban Institute documents the lives of vulnerable LGBTQ (and other) youth in New York City and makes...
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After-school Advocates Lobby Legislators to Save 21st Century Program
As federal funding for after-school programs continues to swing in the breeze, after-school advocates are seeking to make their presence felt on...
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2.5KAt Senn High School, Diversity Drives Education
“We have to get creative,” Lofton said. “There is no teacher that we could possibly find that could deliver ESL education as...
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1.4KTrying to Get Their Code On in the South Bronx
NEW YORK — On a freezing Saturday morning in a brick building in the south Bronx, young people with laptops filled a...
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1.1KNew Orleans Filmmaker Hopes to Get the ‘91%’ Out of Movie Seats, Into Ballot Box
NEW YORK — The filmmaker could not get the number out of his head. Even while he was traveling the country to...
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Comprehensive Community Initiatives – Case Studies of Programs in Atlanta, Orlando and New Orleans
America's Promise Alliance presents a three-part report highlighting the achievements of three transformative community development efforts from three different southern cities and...
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Research Points to Impact of Endangered 21st Century After-school Programs
Studies in four states show positive results for the national after-school program currently on the congressional chopping block. The grant program known...
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3.3KCompassion Fatigue Rampant in Youth Service Industry
Maybe it starts as an extra drink after work — you know, just to take the edge off. Or an extended gripe...
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3.0KAn Underdog Sport in NY, Wrestling Helps Students Score Better Grades
“Myself and most of our teachers, we were thinking about wrestling like Hulk Hogan or Andre the Giant,” said assistant principal Tommy...
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1.2KJuggling Child Care, Other People’s Big Families and Toxic Chemicals
NEW YORK — The women wait on an exposed street corner above the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at the intersection of Marcy and Division...
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1.7KAs Congress Considers Cutting Funds, After-school Leaders Say Programs Vital for Kids and Working Families
WASHINGTON, DC — The vast majority of parents — 84 percent — support public funding of after-school programs, said Afterschool Alliance Executive...
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1.3KTeen Siblings Create App to Monitor Police Interactions With Civilians
ATLANTA — Three Georgia teens have created an Android app called Five-O to document police abuse of authority that has been downloaded...
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1.3KActing Out: Red Hook Youth Channel Their Troubles Through Theater
Brooklyn theater company Falconworks Artist Group has been putting on an eight-week program for kids for the past 10 years to help...
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1.1KAfter Spectacular Rise of National After-school Program, What Comes Next?
Today it’s sitting precariously on the chopping block, but the federal grant program known as 21st Century Community Learning Centers once seemed...
