All posts tagged "OST"

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...

The Economic Crisis Hits Home

First Focus/National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth The nation's school districts are experiencing an upsurge in the number...

New Federal Mentoring Funds Coming; Website Launched

New solicitations for federal mentoring grants could be announced in the next few weeks and months from several federal agencies – although...

Expanding Options: State Financing of Education Pathways for Struggling Students and Out-of-School Youth

National Youth Employment Coalition The report looks at how three "leader" states, Indiana, Massachusetts and North Carolina, are accessing public funds for...

Educationally/Insufficient? An Analysis of the Availability & Educational Quality of Children’s E/I Programming

Children Now Commercial television broadcasters are required by law to air a minimum of three hours of children's educational/instructional (EI) programming per...

Strategies for Success: A Plan to Align Out-of-School Time Initiatives with High School Reform

The report recommends ways New York City after-school programs for teens can be improved, and stresses the importance of collaboration between high...

One Dream, Two Realities: Perspectives of Parents on America’s High Schools

Only 15 percent of parents of students at low-performing schools are satisfied with their children's education, as opposed to 58 percent of...