All posts tagged "OST"

Grants Awarded – Week of April 30th, 2012

  Students in Free Enterprise and Lowe’s TO: United Neighborhood Center$2000-To build a new playground and exercise area for kids.   CarMax...

College Assistance Program Praised By Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy

Earlier this month, the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy; a nonprofit organization that frequently assists Congress in identifying successful social program models – gave...

Performance-Based Scholarships May Improve Academic Progress of College Students

Children in the United States – Report and Factsheet

Analysis of Obama’s Budget Proposal as it Relates to Youth Issues

“A breakdown and analysis of the President’s 2013 budget proposal as it relates to children and families.”

Report on Special Education Placement Policies in State of Massechusetts

Education Sector Report on Extended School Time Raises some questions.

School Discipline: Debate Reignited by New Los Angeles Data

This story originally appeared on iWatchnews.org by the Center for Public Integrity As a national debate heats up over appropriate student discipline, new data...

Secretary of Education Unveils Blueprint to Reform Nation’s Vocational Education System

Want Fries with That? Only if it’s Regulated

Care for a fizzy soda pop with that lunch room meal? How about a thick slice of pizza to add to that...

No Easy Answers When it Comes to Truant Youth

I attended the recent annual conference of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) to give the closing plenary...

Nationwide Funding for State Pre-K Programs Lowest in a Decade, Report Finds

For decades, study after study have shown that children who attend pre-kindergarten programs are better prepared for the rest of their education,...

Young Inmates Doing Thyme in the Prison Garden

On a football-field-sized stretch of land beside the Walton County Jail in tiny Monroe, Ga., a tractor tiller turned weed-choked rows of...

Student Advocates Raise Concerns over Pending Student Loan Interest Rate Increase

Student advocates worry that a pending interest rate increase on federally-administered student loans will further burden borrowers, potentially adding thousands of dollars...

Getting Up: Improving Youth Outcomes with Graffiti in Denver

Graffiti is a common site in the neighborhood around the Access Art Gallery in Denver – not inside, hanging on the walls...

Cheating Scandal Prompts New SAT and ACT Security Measures

In the wake of a cheating scandal involving more tha 20 Long Island, N.Y. high school students, makers of the SAT and ACT...

Nebraska’s big-government conservatives criminalize being home sick from school

Last August, more than 20 families were forced to gather at the Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha for an exercise in mass...

Post-Penn State Paranoia Moves West

It’s hard to imagine an elementary school where the challenges would be greater: 1,500 students in one building, almost all of them...

A Look at Youth-Related Spending in Obama’s 2013 Budget (Updated 2/14)

President Barack Obama unveiled his 2013 budget proposal today, which calls for $3.8 trillion in spending and projects a $901 billion deficit...

Juvenile Judge Tries to Alter Failed Policy with ‘Rationality’

LOS ANGELES — Fifteen-year-old Juan Carlos Amezcua was just five minutes late for school, and already at the corner by Theodore Roosevelt High...