All posts tagged "OST"

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Campaign Afoot Against Textbook Prices

  A rally in a Washington-area suburb last month officially launched the Textbook Rebellion, a campaign aimed at ensuring affordable textbooks for college...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Youth Today Breakdown of State Spending on Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice and Youth

  Last Updated: August 15 Since the U.S. economy went into a tailspin in 2008, states have faced tough choices on spending. Significant...

• News

  Education Dept. Official Joins “Textbook Rebellion” Rally

  A rally in a Washington-area suburb today officially launched the Textbook Rebellion, a campaign aimed at ensuring affordable textbooks for college students,...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Day 946; facility closures, for better or worse; and more

  ***Day 946 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Selling Eighth-Graders on College

  This summer, at the age of 36, I decided it was time to go back to college. I slept in the dorms,...

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  Staying on Track: Early Findings from a Performance-Based Scholarship Program at the University of New Mexico

  MDRC An experimental scholarship program at the University of New Mexico that provides extra income for low-income students who keep up their...

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  Making Every Diploma Count: Using Extended-Year Graduation Rates to Measure Student Success

  American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF), Gateway to College National Network and the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC) This issue brief argues that...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Bringing Juveniles Back to School

  As the old adage goes, and bears repeating once again: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The best...

• Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Top Headlines 8/10

  Child Welfare The top Miami administrator of Florida’s Department of Children and Families, who was reprimanded for the handling of the Barahona...

• News

  Social Media Use Can Lead to Mental Health Problems

  Social media present risks and benefits to children who use them, but parents who secretly monitor their children’s activity on networking sites...

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  How the Effects of Postsecondary Remedial and Developmental Courses Vary by Level of Academic Preparation

  How the Effects of Postsecondary Remedial and Developmental Courses Vary by Level of Academic Participation National Center for Postsecondary Research This report...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Agenda for Juvenile Woodstock; NYC’s plan for young minority men; Walsh Act update; and more

  ***Day 925 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

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  Integrating Technology with Student-Centered Learning

  Nellie Mae Education Foundation Student-centered learning focuses on educational principles and practices that include providing all students with equal access to the...

• News

  After Interning on Capitol Hill, Former Foster Youth Challenge Child Welfare’s Accountablity

  States should not receive federal funding for foster care if they are not providing high-quality services, caseworkers should not be allowed to...

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  Healthy Youth / Healthy Regions: Informing Action for the Nine County Capital Region (Calif.) and Its Youth

  UC Davis Center for Regional Change, Sierra Health Foundation, and The California Endowment The study examines and documents the connections between youth...

• Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Top Headlines 7/27

  Child Welfare As more children are placed in foster families, adopted or returned to their birth parents, the number of group foster...

• Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Top Headlines 7/26

  Child Welfare Gay teens in Massachusetts are more likely to be homeless than their heterosexual peers, according to new research from the...

• Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Top Headlines 7/25

  Child Welfare Nebraska turned to out-sourcing many of the functions of the state child welfare agency to gain stability, cut costs and...

• Weekly Notes: Justice leader says OJJDP not going anywhere; few recommendations come out of juvenile justice working groups; and more

  ***Day 909 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

• How More Flexibility in Federal Education Funding Will Hurt Low-Income and Minority Students

  The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce recently sent to the full House a bill that is designed to provide...