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AfterZones: Creating a Citywide System to Support and Sustain High-Quality After-School Programs

Public/Private Ventures & The Wallace Foundation P/PV analyzes the success and impediments in implementing one of the country’s more well-known citywide...

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Transforming the High School Experience: How New York City’s New Small Schools Are Boosting Student Achievement and Graduation Rates

MDRC This report confirms that New York City’s small schools, introduced in 2002 after several underperforming public high schools were shut down,...

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Is It Live or Is It Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning

National Bureau of Economic Research Results of a recent unprecedented experiment found that Hispanic students, male students and lower-achieving students benefit...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Hundreds Vie for Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grants

More than 300 organizations are vying for 20 planning grants worth $500,000 each through the Obama Administration’s Promise Neighborhood initiative, data released...

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Do Students Get Hurt by Fuzzy Credits?

Washington – With $100 billion in federal student loans and grants at stake, House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller (D-Calif.)...

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For-Profit College Reforms Stir Debate

The U.S. Department of Education is proposing new rules to oversee the growing field of for-profit higher education, but it kicked the...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Jobs Forecast Predicts Increasing Need for College Degrees

The vast majority of American jobs in the next few years will require some type of post-secondary training or degree, meaning that...

Weekly Notes: Quiet in the Capital, Upcoming conferences and more

***On the surface, all is quiet on the JJ front in the nation’s capital. No news on a nominee to lead OJJDP,...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Boy Scouts Makes Volunteers Learn About Sex Abuse

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) last week ordered all of its volunteers to go through training about sex abuse, after years...

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Congress Considers New Bankruptcy Rules on Private College Loans

A possible fight over college loans is looming in Congress, but not over the maximum a student can borrow. Instead, members of...

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Addressing the Unmet Educational Needs of Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems

Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Georgetown Public Policy Institute Youths who go through both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems often...

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Public School Graduates and Dropouts From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2007-2008

National Center for Education Statistics A recent report from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that the Averaged Freshman Graduation...

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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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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,...

Opinion

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...

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