Youth Today
All posts tagged "OST"
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News
New Paper Blames GED for Adding to Dropout Problem
While the GED – general educational development certificate – is often portrayed as a quick fix for America’s dropout problem or a...
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News
Linked Learning Spreads in California
Academics and stagecraft: Students carry a full academic load and concentrate in their field of interest: music, visual arts, film, dance,...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Bribing Kids: Proceed With Caution
Many moons ago, when my oldest child was about to turn 3 and still stubbornly in diapers, I did something I’d...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Attracting Those Older Teens
In elementary school, out-of-school-time (OST) programs not only give children new opportunities to learn and grow, they also provide families with...
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Out-of-School-Time: Leveraging Higher Education for Quality
Foundations and The After-School Corporation Youth need high-quality out-of-school time (OST) programs with staffs that are well-trained and better educated staff...
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News
The Push for Summer Learning Grows
Two national groups are fighting for increased funding for summer learning programs as a way to improve the American educational system and...
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News
The Flip Side to Black Lists
This story from Saginaw, Mich., touches on both stories in the May edition of Youth Today about hiring and supervision of youth...
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College Students Spending Less Time in the Books
Cedric Hope, a junior at the University of Maryland, College Park, says he manages to get by in his classes, but he...
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Enhancing Quality in Afterschool Programs: Fifth-Year Report on a Process Evaluation of Prime Time Palm Beach County, Inc.
This is the fifth-year report of an evaluation of Prime Time Palm Beach County, an intermediary whose role is to improve...
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Book Reviews
Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education
Gaston Alonso, Noel S. Anderson, Celina Su, Jeanne TheoharisNew York University Press289 pages. $70 hardcover, $22 paperback. Sharing conclusions from separate...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Competition Opens for Promise Neighborhood Planning Grants
The U.S. Department of Education on Friday announced the long-awaited $10 million planning grants competition for the Promise Neighborhood program – an...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
12 Foundations Pledge $500 Million for Education’s Innovation Fund
Twelve national foundations have pledged to add $500 million to the U.S. Department of Education’s $650 million Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund,...
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News
Jury Slams Scouts with $18.5 M for Sex Abuse
In what appears to be biggest judgment ever against an American youth-serving organization for sex abuse, an Oregon jury today hit the...
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News
Learning from Molesters: What the Scout Scandal Teaches Us
Should the Boy Scouts say sorry? Should the pope resign? Those are among the questions that people have been asking in recent...
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News
Jury Deems Boy Scouts Negligent in Handling Sex Abuse
In a case that could have significant implications for one of the country’s most venerated youth-serving organizations, a Portland, Ore., jury today...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Funding available for work with dropouts, ex-offenders
The Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration is looking for grant applicants interested in working with young adult offenders and high...
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Survey of Entering Student Engagement, Benchmarking & Benchmarks: Effective Practice with Entering Students
This report espouses “benchmarking” as a way for community colleges to measure how well they are making sure the youths who start...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
More Fed Money for Food at Summer Programs
TANF funds available through the Recovery Act can be used to help run summer food service programs by covering costs that are...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Youth Agencies to Work with Persistently Dangerous Schools
Three of the nation’s largest youth-serving agencies will partner with six “persistently dangerous” high schools to run violence reduction programs, using $34...
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Raising Their Voices: Engaging Students, Teachers and Parents to Help End the High School Dropout Epidemic
Civic Enterprises Based on focus group discussion in four cities – Baltimore, Dallas, Indianapolis and Kingsport, Tenn. – this report contributes...
