All posts tagged "OST"

By Choice, Not by Chance: Family Planning, Human Rights and Development

Do Federally Assisted Households Have Access to High Performing Public Schools?

How Out of School Time Programs Can Support the Nation’s Economic Recovery

Exit polls show the number one issue for voters during the 2012 election cycle was “fixing the economy.”  Outsourcing, unemployment, foreclosure, credit...

Forced From Home: The Lost Boys and Girls of Central America

GLISI – Conditions for Success

Grants Awarded: July – September 2012

    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ (206) 709-3100 Seattle, WA Athabasca University, to provide conference support to Massive Open Online...

Out of Print: Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age

2011 National School Climate Survey: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth in Our Nation’s Schools

Education at a Glance 2012: OECD Indicators

This is a report which is premised on a global scale. Below are links to the full report and a more condensed,...

Higher Education: Gaps in Access and Persistence Study

America’s Children in Brief 2012: Key National Indicators of Well-Being

‘For-Profit’ Colleges Slammed in New Senate Report

Earlier this week, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) released a report on for-profit colleges, the end result of a two-year study of the...

Grad Nation Campaign Releases Handbook for Grassroots Activity

Last spring, America’s Promise Alliance released a new communications handbook titled Raising Your Voice: Communications Planning for Youth-Serving Organizations.  The manual is...

Legislators Rally for Multiple Youth-Targeted Proposals at D.C. Conference

Last week, Children Uniting Nations kicked off its seventh-annual national conference with an event in Washington, D.C. called “Keeping the Promise to...

Teaching Kids to Have Some Grit and Life Skills as Important as Academics says New Report

Children in K-12 schools in the United States need to learn not just the three Rs, but also focus more closely on...

Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century

No Real ‘Alternative’

Over the past two years, Patrick Welch has grown accustomed to prison life. The metro Atlanta native must wear a uniform every...

The Racial Gap in Learning, Discipline

When is a three-day suspension simply three days out of school, and when is it the first step into the school-to-prison pipeline?...

The Racial Gap in Learning, Discipline

When is a three-day suspension simply three days out of school, and when is it the first step into the school-to-prison pipeline?...