Youth Today
All posts tagged "OST"
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Guest Opinion Essay
Let’s Help Youth Who Are in Doubt and in Debt
Once again, young people are bearing the brunt of our failure to monitor effectively the institutions they go to for help. You...
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News
For-Profit Colleges Intensify Lobbying on Proposed Rules
A year of congressional hearings, bad publicity, falling enrollments and federal rule modifications has led to major changes in the for-profit private...
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News
New Report Disputes GAO For-Profit Findings
A report commissioned by a coalition of for-profit schools challenges the findings of the Government Accountability Office’s report that found alleged fraud...
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News
USDA Proposes New School Lunch Standards
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued proposed nutritional guidelines under the Healthy and Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 that will require...
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Unlikely Allies: Unions and Districts in the Battle for School Reform
Unlikely Allies: Unions and Districts in the Battle for School Reform Education Sector Faced with the task of turning around failing schools...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Kitchen Centralizes Meals and Snacks
The children don’t show up until after 2 p.m. but Lance Smith, after-school coordinator for residents at the Hubbard Place Apartments in...
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3…8… 11 MillionEveryone seems to agree there are too many dropouts in the United States. But when it comes to counting them, the estimates...
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News
California Parents Pull ‘Trigger’ for School Takeover
Parents in Compton, Calif., south of Los Angeles, have organized the first challenge to one of the state’s poorly performing public schools,...
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News
Do Institutions Respond Asymmetrically to Changes in State Need- and Merit-Based Aid?
A study presented at November’s conference in Indianapolis raised some eyebrows over this finding: When states increase need-based financial aid to public...
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Book Reviews
Books Offer a Contrarian View of Education Reform
The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday’s IdeasBy Frederick M. HessHarvard University Press, 286 pages Feel-Bad...
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Criminal-Justice and School Sanctions Against Nonheterosexual Youth: A National Longitudinal Study
Pediatrics A study based on The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health found that homosexual adolescents were at higher risk of getting...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
With No Government Regulations, Online High Schools Can Be Costly Pursuits
By Mc Nelly Torres Florida Center for Investigative Reporting Rodolfo M. Rodriguez, a 24-year-old cashier at a gas station in Davie,...
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Criminal-Justice and School Sanctions Against Nonheterosexual Youth: A National Longitudinal Study
Pediatrics A study based on The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health found that homosexual adolescents were at higher risk of getting...
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Trends in High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 1972-2008
A new federal report is the latest measurement of the American high dropout picture, this one quantifying not just rates of ninth...
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Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2010
The Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Educational Statistics collaborated on this report, which breaks down crime in and...
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News
Senate Postpones DREAM Vote: House Passes Bill 216-198
The DREAM Act, which passed the House last night but faced sure defeat in the Senate if brought to a vote...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
GAO Revises Report on For-Profit Schools
The Government Accountability Office has taken the unusual step of revising parts of its report on for-profit schools’ recruiting practices, lessening the...
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In Connecticut, Seclusion and Restraint are Shockingly Common Practice in Schoolrooms
Six-year-old Anthony Wickham weighed about 48 pounds when five adults forcibly restrained him at Plainfield’s Shepherd Elementary School. Anthony, a student in...
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News
Q & A: Bradley Curs on How Need-based State Financial Aid Leads to Schools Raising Tuition
Last month’s annual Association for the Study of Higher Education conference in Indianapolis featured the presentation of a particular piece of research...
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News
Dropout Factories on the Decline, Report Says
A significant decrease in Southern “dropout factories” – high schools in which 60 percent or fewer of incoming freshmen classes go on...
