All posts tagged "OST"

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  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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  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...

• 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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  Dropout Estimates Put at 3 … 8 … 11 Million

  Everyone 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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  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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  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...

• 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...

• 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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  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...

• 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...

• 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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  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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  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...

• Want to Prompt Action on Black Male Achievement Gap? Take Out the Word “Black”

  “Black males are in crisis.” So begins a new study from the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS), which finds that...

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  Subprime Opportunity: The Unfulfilled Promise of For-Profit Colleges and Universities

  Only 22 percent of first-time, full-time students at for-profit schools received their degree within six years, compared to 55 percent of similar...