All posts tagged "OST"

Resources: Curriculum Review

Real Stories, Real Teens Keith Hefner, with Development Without LimitsYouth CommunicationLeader’s Guide: $34.95, 286 pages.Anthology: $16.95, 188 pages.Full Program: $695, 20 anthologies,...

OJJDP to Take Bids on Stimulus Mentoring Money (Updated)

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is currently developing a solicitation for proposals to spend local mentoring funds carved out...

OJJDP to Take Bids on Stimulus Mentoring Money

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is currently developing a solicitation for proposals to spend local mentoring funds carved out...

BGCA Struggling

Late last month, AS Today had a chance to speak with Kevin McCartney, who heads government relations for the Atlanta-based Boys &...

How-to on Getting After-School Money out of the Stimulus

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed by President Obama last month includes lots of money for states to spend on education...

MENTOR Names New CEO

Alberto Gonzales might be hard up for a job, but not every Bush 43 guy is having the same trouble. MENTOR, a...

The Cost of Quality Out-of-School-Time Programs

Community decision makers in need of a comprehensive guide to wisely investing in out-of-school-time (OST) programs may have a new bible. The...

Course Credit Accrual and Dropping Out of High School, by Student Characteristics

National Center for Educational Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences Educators and parents who are looking for warning signs that a high school...

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...