All posts tagged "OST"

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  Double Jeopardy: How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation

  Low income students who are not proficient in reading by the third grade have a much lower chance of graduating high school,...

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  Still Denied: How Community Colleges Shortchange Students by Not Offering Federal Loans

  The Project on Student Debt Federal student loans provide the most affordable and safest option for students, however, many community colleges to...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  For-Profit Colleges, Allies Spend $4.5 Million Lobbying Against Gainful Employment

  For-profit colleges and their allies in the battle against greater regulation by the U.S. Department of Education spent more than $4.5 million...

• It’s Time to End Zero Tolerance in Schools: A Call To Action

  It is too early to know whether the current wave of school reforms in the United States will lead to lasting improvements...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Critical Moment to Connect Latino Youth to School and Jobs, Report Says

  A report released today by the National Council of La Raza urges organizations to partner with one another to find ways to...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Education in Juvie

  After a long, frustrating wait for action on any juvenile justice-related legislation, the pending reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act...

• Good Training for Principals Trickles Down

  I served as the founding principal of The International High School @ Prospect Heights in Brooklyn for five and a half years....

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Youth Today Guide to For-Profit Schools

  For-profit colleges and universities aim their hard-sell marketing pitch at the kids who are least prepared to make informed choices and the...

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  For-Profit Colleges

  For-profit colleges and universities aim their hard-sell marketing pitch at the kids who are least prepared to make informed choices and the...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Computer-Based GED Test Set to Debut

  A computer-based version of the GED will be available at testing centers in four states by next year and is likely to...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Bill Would Remove Senate Confirmation for Top Juvenile Justice, Child Welfare Jobs

  Legislation introduced this month by a bipartisan group of Senators would eliminate Senate confirmation for about 200 executive nominations, including two of...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Recidivism apples vs. Recidivism oranges; juvenile justice and the 2011 budget deal; guide to for-profit colleges; and more

  ***The staff at Youth Today has been hard at work finishing up our April print issue, which by the way include our...

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  Delinquency: The Untold Story of Student Loan Borrowing

  Institute for Higher Education Policy Forty-one percent of federal student loan borrowers who started repayment in 2005 have either defaulted on their...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Another Round of Layoffs at Public/Private Ventures

  Public/Private Ventures, a 33-year-old national research organization focused on evaluating programs for low-income communities and using that information to improve effectiveness, last...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  America’s Job…Surplus?

  How can it be that today, in the midst of the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression and millions of...

• Weekly Notes: More thoughts on Supreme Court case; resource for selling juvenile justice reform to GOP; and more

  ***The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in J.D.B. v North Carolina on Wednesday, a case that might change the rules for...

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  Supreme Court Considers Rules for Police Questioning of Youths in Schools

  The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today on whether police officers should consider age as a factor in determining whether a person...

• High Court Should Not Limit Police In Schools

  Tomorrow, the United States Supreme Court will consider a case tomorrow which questions how criminal procedural rights, the Miranda Warning, apply in...

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  Police, Juveniles and Schools: Three Key Questions on Today’s Supreme Court Case

  The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in J.D.B. v North Carolina this morning, a case in which a 13-year-old was...

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  Education Department Sets Credit Hour Definition

  The Education Department has issued its definition of what work must be accomplished to earn reimbursement from federal financial aid programs for...