All posts tagged "OST"

KIDS COUNT Indicator Brief: Reducing the High School Dropout Rate

  Annie E. Casey Foundation Living a successful, financially comfortable life is difficult for many Americans, but especially for high school dropouts....

What Works for Summer Learning Programs for Low-Income Children and Youth: Preliminary Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Social Intervention

  Child Trends/The Wallace Foundation Preliminary evidence suggests that summer learning programs are an effective way to negate the learning loss that...

The Consequences of Dropping Out of High School

  Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University A new report chronicling the whereabouts of past high school dropouts shows that all...

Community Schools Pushed by Dems, Brits

Youth-serving agencies should plan to play a prominent role in America’s educational reform efforts by partnering with public schools to transform them...

Study Finds Dropouts More Likely to be Incarcerated or Unemployed

A new report chronicling the whereabouts of past high school dropouts shows that all dropouts, and particularly African-Americans, are far more likely...

Education’s New $650 Million Plan

For enterprising youth-serving agencies with a track record of partnering with schools to improve student achievement in a measurable way, now is...

After-school Leaders Say Demand For Programming Has Grown

Integrated Services Boost Graduation Odds

Bottom LineAfter years of “siloed” school reform efforts focused on such issues as teacher quality, mentoring, class size, school size and curriculum,...

BrainPOP Educators

http://www.brainpop.com/educators/blog BrainPOP Educators is the newest addition to the 10-year-old website designed to help teach difficult concepts to students. On this interactive...

Universities in Partnership: Strategies for Education, Youth Development and Community Renewal

  Edited by Ira Harkavy and Matthew HartleyJossey-Bass/Wiley133 pages. $29. The Summer 2009 issue of New Directions for Youth Development, the quarterly...

Report Details Waste in College Improvement Funds

A Maryland college spent nearly $80,000 in federal grant money on “numerous student trips to locations such as resorts and amusement parks,”...

Report Makes Economic Case for Dropout Fight

The best way to stimulate the economy is to get more students to graduate from high school and go to college. That’s...

Costs Up, Faculty Down at Public Colleges

Higher tuition. Less faculty. That’s the story among      colleges and universities throughout the country, according to a new Center on Budget...

Database Includes Assessment Tools

  A new database of assessment tools allows practitioners, evaluators and policymakers to gauge the quality of science-related out-of-school programs. The Assessment...

Accreditation Survey Reveals Good and Bad

  The New York-based Council on Accreditation (COA), which works to accredit human service organizations, including private social service groups, sent e-mail...

Afterschool Workforce Development Strategies: From Recruitment to Career Pathways

  Children Now After-school workforce development projects that focus their outreach efforts on specific demographics, such as high school and college students,...

Foundations Inc.

http://www.foundationsinc.org Foundations Inc. is a nonprofit organization that provides professional development services and technical assistance to schools, school districts and community organizations...

The Workshop Out of School

  Anne-E WoodPerforming Arts Workshop44 pages. $10 paperback, free download. Since 1965, the Performing Arts Workshop in San Francisco has transformed young...

A Guide to Effective Investments in Positive Youth Development: Implications of Research for Financing and Sustaining Programs and Services for Youth

The Finance Project This paper reviews some of the most recent research on what makes an effective youth development program, and seeks...

The Lion’s Legacy

When it comes to legislating on behalf of Americans most in need of federal assistance, few congressmen have a legacy with the...