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Finding the Right Match

Program Works to Get Low-income Students into More Selective Colleges Rashid’s job is to turn that kind of thinking around.When students at...

Refugee Youth Programs Nurture Strengths

Organizations strategize to help kids ‘dream again’ “We could do a flea market,” suggests Faisal Gedi, a tall high school senior of...

The Plummeting Labor Market Fortunes of Teens and Young Adults

Prevalence of Childhood and Adult Obesity in the United States, 2011-2012

Education Department, Cities Team Up on After-School Programs

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Education Department and the National League of Cities have agreed to work together to foster development of after-school...

After the Recall: Dangerous Products Remain in Homes

Beyond Bullying: How Hostile School Climate Perpetuates the School-to-Prison Pipeline for LGBT Youth

American Camp Association Urges National System for Employee Background Checks

  As summer camp season approaches, the American Camp Association is urging passage of a law that would make the screening of...

Innovative Ways to Engage Kids Displayed at National AfterSchool Association Conference

NEW YORK — If you’re a kid in Park Slope, Brooklyn, chances are you’ve stumbled into the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. What...

Award Ceremony Honors New York After-School Educators, Programs

NEW YORK — The tables at Midtown Manhattan’s ornate Cipriani restaurant, with its high, grand arched ceilings, were set with bouquets of...

Educating Google Generation Demands Change, Will After-School Take Lead?

Jaime Casap, photo by Leonard Witt   NEW YORK — Jaime Casap, Google’s official global education evangelist, told a gathering of afterschool educators in...

Getting to the Heart of Education: Listening to the Whole At-Risk Student

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” —Aristotle Many at-risk students in schools are crying out for help...

National AfterSchool Association Conference Draws Educators to New York

NEW YORK — Thousands of teachers, administrators and other education professionals from across the country are gathering in midtown Manhattan Friday for...

Report Cites Four Characteristics of Effective Afterschool Programs

  The most effective afterschool programs share four characteristics, according to a recent report from the Afterschool Alliance. The programs have a...

Teaching and Learning: Achieving Education for All

Taking a Deeper Dive into Afterschool: Postive Outcomes and Promising Practices

Young Voices Become Strong Through WritersCorps

Reading poetry at the WritersCorps Live event in San Francisco on Feb. 20 were (from left) Rowan Ellis, Ifat Maru, Cecilia Vigil,...

The Common Core and Afterschool

The L.A.C.E.R. (Literacy, Arts, Culture, Education and Recreation) afterschool program in Los Angeles offers a variety of activities to students , 90...