All posts tagged "OST"

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• News

  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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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,...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  A Practitioner’s Guide: Building and Managing Quality Afterschool Programs

  National Center for Quality Afterschool/SEDL Publications 70 pages. Free; shipping charges only. This attractive, notebook-size booklet highlights the results of a five-year...

• Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Are Daytime Curfews Becoming More En Vogue?

  Note: This story was updated on April 1. Daytime curfew laws, which generally prohibit youths from traveling unsupervised in public during school...