All posts tagged "OST"

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...

Top Headlines 03/18/2014

Juvenile Justice Federal judge reviews plans to reform Illinois juvenile detention facilities. Education Alaska senate advances education reform bill. Still a chance...

Top Stories 03/17/2014

Juvenile Justice Stop jailing status offenders with felons in Kentucky. 217-year-old reform school taken over by state.   Education New Florida school...

Top Headlines 03/14/2014

Juvenile Justice Sweeping reform bill advance in Kentucky senate. March is Juvenile Justice Month of Faith and Healing. Education No winners with...

Top Headlines 03/13/2014

Juvenile Justice Still work to be done in Cuomo’s reform efforts. Juvenile prisoners create kids’ books. Ohio ACLU seeks end to unnecessary...

Top Headlines 03/12/2014

Juvenile Justice Ohio juvenile facility moves its most dangerous inmates to county jail. Georgia DJJ seeks veterans as employees. South Carolina school...

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...

Top Headlines 03/11/2014

Juvenile Justice Kentucky senate moves to open juvenile court to public. Ohio boy accused of murder at age 14 to be tried...

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...

Top Headlines 03/06/2014

Juvenile Justice Youth accused of plotting Tennessee school shooting still in juvenile court. . Michigan Supreme Court examining cases of more than...

Top Headlines 03/05/2014

Juvenile Justice Alternatives to detention in Connecticut. Higher levels of direct commitment seen in some Florida jurisdictions. Education Obama proposes two percent...

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...

Top Headlines 03/04/2014

Juvenile Justice Juvenile justice system feeds into adult corrections. Education impacted by solitary confinement. Education Common Core debate could ignite legislative session...

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...

Top Headlines 03/03/2014

Juvenile Justice Improving the system in Kentucky. National effort to raise age of juvenile jurisdiction gathers steam. Don’t seal juvenile records in...