All posts tagged "OST"

An Urge to Care Lit Her Fire

  Pasewalk: “Her ability to make work light and fun was always appreciated,” an ex-colleague says. It was 1973, and Jill Pasewalk...

Student Youth Travel Association Youth Foundation

http://www.sytayouthfoundation.org Designed to promote educational travel experiences for young people, the site offers scholarship and grant programs for individual students, school classes...

The Teens with Michelle Obama at President’s Speech

Three Washington, D.C., high school students who asked first lady Michelle Obama questions during her recent visit to their after-school program were...

Most Stimulus Jobs Require College Experience

A little more than half of the 3.7 million jobs expected to be created by the new economic stimulus package will require...

Online Sports Registration Vendor Strikes Out

  Youth sports and after-school groups from Alaska to New Jersey that hired a Washington company to register program participants online are...

1.5 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2007

Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places and Pursuits

The Texas Approach to Truancy: Curfews and Tickets

In Dallas, law enforcement officials say the existing process for dealing with truants is not working. That process is simple: officers pick...

OBAMA JOB WATCH: Department of Education (Updated July 17)

July 17 Obama’s choice for undersecretary of education, Martha Kanter, has been confirmed. Since 2003, Kanter had been chancellor of Foothill-De Anza...

New Day in San Francisco, Providence

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s New Day for Learning, which seeks to help communities improve existing plans to improve educational achievement through...

New Education Chief Raises Hopes

  Chicago Public Schools students have made slow but steady progress in several key areas during the eight-year leadership of CEO Arne...

America’s Afterschool Storybook

  http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/storybook/gallery.cfm In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers last year, the Afterschool Alliance invited people...

Chairs Named for House Education and Labor Subcommittees

Democrats have been named as chairs of the five subcommittees of the House Education and Labor Committee. The committee deals with a...

Teen Flees School, Almost Crushed

A teenager almost suffered the ultimate fate last month after running away from a youth program after an argument with a staffer....

Dual Enrollment Reaches Down

Vargas: Dual enrollment initiatives are spreading to more states. “We want students who aren’t on their way to college,” said Daniel Voloch....

Rural Awakening

A racing team from the Sunflower County Freedom Project prepares for a 5K race. The teens are (left to right) Michael Burse,...

Struggling Parents Pull Kids from Day Care

The Associated Press/MSNBC Parents throughout the nation are scaling back or pulling their children from day care programs because they can no...

CPS Give Kids a Voice in Cutting Dropout Rate

Chicago Sun-Times More than 50 youth from 15 Chicago high schools have spent the past year-and-a-half trying to figure out how to...

From Expelled to Excelled

The Last Dropout Bill MillikenHay House241 pages. $14.95 The Last Dropout, written by the founder of Communities in Schools (CIS), is based...

Madoff Scam Claims JEHT, Picower Foundations

Youth work lost two major benefactors to the apparent Ponzi scheme created by now infamous financial manager Bernard Madoff. New York-based grant...