All posts tagged "OST"

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  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...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  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....

• News

  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....

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  Rural Awakening

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

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Book Reviews

  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...

• News

  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

• Poll: Most Voters Elect to Support After-School

  A majority of likely voters support increasing funds for after-school program, according to a new poll commissioned by the Afterschool Alliance, which...

• Finding Resources to Support Mentoring Programs and Services for Youth

  The Finance Project 32 pages. Free. This brief explores three strategies for financing and sustaining mentoring programs and services: building partnerships with businesses...

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  College is for Poor Kids

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  Growing Pains

    Thanks to an ambitious initiative passed by its voters, California is the nation’s largest incubator of after-school programming. But the state’s...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  2008 Lights On After School

  After-school snack? No, the children don’t usually sample the pickle juice at the Eureka Kids after-school program in Eureka Springs, Ark. But...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Banned Books, Chapter 2

  WASHINGTON POST Conservative Christian students and parents recently gathered outside a Virginia high school to protest the banning of anti-homosexual books they...