All posts tagged "OST"

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  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...

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  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...

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  OBAMA JOB WATCH

  Nobody in consideration wants to talk about it. Nobody who supports someone for one of the jobs wants to be quoted. Such...

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  Technology Boosts Youth Assets

  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Community Access to Technology (CAT) program in 1999 to help provide local communities in...

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  Science in After-School Market Research Study

    Coalition for Science After School (CSAS) More than 50 years after the launch of Sputnik initiated a broad campaign to increase...

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  Building Blocks For Kids: Creating Intervention Systems That Support Young Children’s Healthy Development

    Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This webcast, a one-hour recording of which is available online, focuses on how states...

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  Public Charter Schools Job Board

  http://jobs.publiccharters.org Charter school employers and their prospective employees can search for one another on this site, a tool of the nonprofit charter...

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  Great Science for Girls: Webcasts

  http://www.edequity.org/gsg/about/webcasts Engaging girls in science is the focus of this 40-minute webcast of a PowerPoint and audio presentation recorded in March. Presented...

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  The Gifted Kids’ Survival Guide: For Ages 10 & Under

  Judy Galbraith Free Spirit Publishing122 pages. $12.99 paperback. Self-help publisher Judy Galbraith, an advocate for gifted youth, created the first edition of...

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  Society for Research in Child Development

  www.srcd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=330 After-school science learning gets more attention – this time involving programs for both boys and girls – in this new searchable...

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  House Passes Labor, Health and Education Appropriations Bill

    The House of Representatives passed the appropriations bill for Labor, Health and Education Programs today 264-153, leaving intact the $1.069 billion ...

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  Life After Debt?

  A growing number of low-income minority students who go to for-profit colleges are taking out and defaulting on private student loans, which...

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  America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009

  Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics An annual federal inter-agency report shows a few small changes in the well-being of...

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  Trends in Child Health 1997-2006: Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Diagnoses of ADHD/ADD and of Learning Disability

  Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Though it makes no effort to establish possible causes and some of its findings are...

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  House Appropriations Committee Passes CNCS Budget

  The House Appropriations Committee on Friday fought back an effort to withhold all money for AmeriCorps programs pending an investigation into the...

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  Five Teams Receive Grants to Expand Learning Opportunities

  Leadership teams from five states received a total of $250,000 in grants to support after-school and summer learning opportunities for students through...

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  Supreme Court Rules School Strip Search Illegal

  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 today that the strip search of a 13-year-old Arizona girl suspected of having prescription-strength pain relievers...

• A Good Resource if You’re Huntin’ for Recovery Act Money

  YouthBuild has circulated guidance to its own network of sites entitled Memo on Accessing 2009 Recovery Act and Stimulus Funding Opportunities. Some...

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  Making Every Day Count: Boys & Girls Clubs’ Role in Promoting Positive Outcomes for Teens

  Public/Private Ventures This latest report on P/PV's multi-year study of Boys & Girls Clubs finds that the more frequently youths participate in...

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  Growing a Workforce

  Skills with teeth: Pam Fuller, 17, practices using a dental instrument in her dental assisting class at Central Educational Center. Photo: Jamaal...