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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...

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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...

► Reports

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...

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