All posts tagged "OST"

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...