Youth Today
All posts tagged "afterschool"
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1.4K► ReportsGetting to Work on Summer Learning
The Wallace Foundation releases the 2nd edition of this report offering comprehensive guidance and detailed recommendations on how to run an effective...
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2.5KNewsAfter-school Programs Offer Protective Factors, Research Shows
More and more research is linking transiency to student achievement. Transiency refers to students leaving a school in the middle of the...
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2.8KNewsApartment Complex Tests Whether Stable Rent, After-school, Health Programs Can Change a Struggling School
Children shoulder their book bags as they stream out of Indian Creek Elementary School at 2:30 each day. They walk in twos...
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1.4KNewsAfter-school Teacher: ‘I Want to Help People Find Wholeness’
Kristin Hemingway sits at a card table in a tiny room behind the leasing office at Summerdale Commons apartment complex. Her big...
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4.9KNewsCan After-school Program at Apartment Complex Turn Around a Failing School?
But 200 children lived there — one-third of Brumby Elementary’s student population. That year, something happened at Madison Hills. The complex was...
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3.9KNewsPublic Housing Increasingly Place for After-school Programs
Public housing is increasingly taking a role in supporting kids’ education, according to Megan Gallagher, senior research associate at the Urban Institute....
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2.1KNewsAtlanta Teens Survey Teens for Lights On Afterschool Event
To kick off its national rally for after-school programs this week, the Afterschool Alliance released survey results showing 89 percent of adults...
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1.3KGrantsYouth Summer Learning Program Award Grants
Subject: Summer Learning, Education, Youth Development, Afterschool | Deadline: Dec. 21, 2018 | Amount: $10,000
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2.5KNewsAfter-school People, the Fed Wants to Help You Teach Financial Literacy
After-school programs looking to teach kids financial literacy can find resources in an unexpected place — the Federal Reserve.
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1.9KNews‘Career-pathing’ Is How to Retain Millennial After-school Workers, Trainer Says
ATLANTA — Earlier this year, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta changed the way it introduced new workers to the...
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4.1KGuest Opinion EssayLeaders Aren’t Born, They’re Built — at Summer Camp
“Wait. What are we going to do?” The six 12- to 14-year-olds looked at each other as the skies opened up during...
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2.6KNewsChess Teaches Girls Focused Thinking, Chess Girls DC Founder Says
Robin Ramson was a chess player in high school, and she introduced the game to her daughter, Sarah, when she was 4.
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5.0KGuest Opinion EssayHow to Teach Kids to Listen to, Respect Each Other
The meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in June was, at minimum, riveting political theater, and potentially...
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2.6KGuest Opinion EssayYouth With High Stress Need Mentors Carefully Chosen to Match With Them
In recent decades, youth mentoring programs have grown exponentially in popularity and have received increasing support from both private and public sources...
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1.9KGuest Opinion EssayYouth Philanthropists Are Achieving a Lot With a Little Money
Most folks know of Margaret Mead's quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world ..."...
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4.0KGuest Opinion EssayChess Saved Me From Life of Crime, So I Teach It to Tough Kids
I’m in the business of playing a game with young people. Let me clarify that. I’m in the business of not only...
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2.6KNewsStudent Reporting Labs Teach Youth to Report News About Community Issues
When PBS NewsHour aired last week, the show included a story about Mighty Greens, a youth-led gardening cooperative in Washington, D.C. Not...
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1.9KNewsSeminal After-school Report Marked a Pivot Point in Working with Youth, Creators Say
When Jane Quinn walked into the gleaming conference room at the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1990, its wide bank of...
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3.5KNewsVideo Project Brings Together Urban and Rural Teens, Teaches New Skills
When James Hatfield, 17, left Campbell County, Tenn., to travel to the Bronx, New York, six months ago, he was nervous...
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1.2KGrantsGreater-D.C. Region Youth in Poverty Development Program Grants
Subject: Youth Development, Education, Mentoring, Afterschool | Deadline: Feb. 5, 2019 | Amount: $5,000 - $25,000
