All posts tagged "OST"

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Study Examines Teaching Occupational Skills Along with English

  This new evaluation from the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration deals with lessons learned from the Limited English Proficiency and...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Study Examines Teaching Occupational Skills Along with English

  This new evaluation from the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration deals with lessons learned from the Limited English Proficiency and...

• New Group Strives to Increase College Degrees

  Among the many organizations whose stated purpose is to increase the number of youths who earn a postsecondary degree, add another to...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  $650M Available for Innovation in Education

  The U.S. Department of Education  today released its “final priorities” and the grant application for the $650 million Investing in Innovation Fund....

• News

  Grad Nation Dropout Prevention Campaign Targets Class of 2018

  If low-performing schools are theaters of war in the struggle against the dropout problem, then expect to see Grad Nation – the...

• ► Reports

  College- and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success

    Education Sector This report focuses on a new way of determining which high schools are turning out the students best prepared...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  A Real Head Start?

    A long-awaited study on the impact of Head Start found the national program has had no lasting academic impact on children....

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Congratulations on Your Engagement

  A recent study entitled A Report on the 2007 and 2008 High School Survey of Student Engagement provides some distressing news about...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Hit with the Real Costs of College

  By Amanda Ly, 18LA Youth , Los Angeles I always imagined myself on my own at a college far from home, seeing...

• ► Reports

  Squeeze Play 2010: Continued Public Anxiety on Cost, Harsher Judgements on How Colleges are Run

  The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and Public Agenda According to a survey conducted by The National Center for...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  … Attract High Schoolers to After-School Programs

    Persuading high school teens to participate in after-school programs is not an exact science, and it just gets more difficult as...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Mandatory Free Choice Learning

    The Institute for Learning Innovation defines free choice learning as “learning that fulfills the lifelong human quest for knowledge, understanding and...

• ► Reports

  Community Schools Improve Graduation Rates

    National Association of Secondary School Principals and the Coalition for Community Schools Community schools are effective in increasing high school graduation...

• News

  Study outlines ways to help more students finish college

  More money, more child care and more flexibility. Think of how much easier it would be for everyone to do their jobs...

• A College Degree Won’t Make You Free

    A lot of people who’ve read Carter G. Woodson’s famous 1933 treatise, The Mis-Education of the Negro, believe the book’s message...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Uncle Sam to Pre-Schoolers: I Want You … to be Ready

  America’s national security will be put at risk if the government doesn’t make stronger investments in high-quality early childhood education for the...

• ► Reports

  What Are the Best College Access Programs?

  Twenty-three programs designed to help youths get to or through college are featured in a new compendium released by the American Youth...

• Eliminate the 12th Grade?

  Here’s a novel way to reduce the dropout rate and increase the number of students who go to college: Get rid of...

• News

  MENTOR Names New CEO, Again

  Less than a year after it named its previous CEO, Arlington, Va.,-based MENTOR, the National Mentoring Partnership, has chosen Larry Wright, head...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  After-School Leaders Say Demand for Programming Has Grown

    After-school program leaders and supporters gathered at the U.S. Department of Education last month to plead their case for dramatically expanding...