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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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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