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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....

Opinion

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...

Opinion

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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What Are the Best College Access Programs?

Twenty-three programs designed to help youths get to or through college are featured in a new compendium released by the American Youth...

Eliminate the 12th Grade?

Here’s a novel way to reduce the dropout rate and increase the number of students who go to college: Get rid of...

News

MENTOR Names New CEO, Again

Less than a year after it named its previous CEO, Arlington, Va.,-based MENTOR, the National Mentoring Partnership, has chosen Larry Wright, head...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

After-School Leaders Say Demand for Programming Has Grown

After-school program leaders and supporters gathered at the U.S. Department of Education last month to plead their case for dramatically expanding...

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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....

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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...

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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...

News

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...

News

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...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier