All posts tagged "OST"

• Guest Opinion Essay

  After-School Data Old, Discredited

  Your readers would have been well-served if your brief article on the RAND Corp.’s recent paper on afterschool programs (“Current-Generation Youth Programs:...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Dropout Campaign Launched; Will Youth Agencies be In?

  The dropout problem is getting a lot of attention lately, and last month brought a new sign of its growing stature as...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Bringing the Kids to the Mountain

  Circulating: City buses shuttle youth from pick-up points in St. Paul to youth programs, including Youth Farm, a Boys & Girls Club...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Competence is Cool

  Interest in after-school programs for high schoolers is growing around the country, and in many quarters. Several recent national conferences have focused...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Staying True to Myself

  Vox, Atlanta “Look at what’s she’s wearing. … Is that even a real brand name? Oh yeah, I remember her. That’s the...

• ► Reports

  What Matters, What Works: Advancing Achievement After School

  The James Irvine Foundation and Public/Private Ventures This report on Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) – an eight-year, $58 million...

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  Building A Better Bridge: Helping Young Adults Enter and Succeed in College

  Youth Development Institute (YDI) YDI tracked 39 young people as they advanced from a earning a GED with the help of a...

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  Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation

  Editorial Projects in Education Research Center Released by the America’s Promise Alliance to help launch its Dropout Prevention campaign, this report provides...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Secret Ingredient: Youth Workers

  Granger: “Front-line workers want to do the right thing . . . They need some help and support to do that.” In...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  School Choice: The Findings

  Herbert J. WalbergCato Institute133 pages. $9.95. Inspired by his work at the National Center on School Choice at Vanderbilt University, Walberg cites...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Teaching Beyond the Test: Differentiated Project-Based Learning in a Standards-Based Age

  Phil Schlemmer, Dori SchlemmerFree Spirit Publishing240 pages. $34.95. This classroom guide for grades six and up helps teachers balance “meaningful, student-centered education...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Time to Learn: How a New School Schedule Is Making Smarter Kids, Happier Parents, and Safer Neighborhoods

  Christopher Gabrieli, Warren GoldsteinJossey-Bass270 pages. $24.95. Are America’s public schools struggling in part because school days are too short? After developing after-school...

• News

  No Vouching for After-School Vouchers

  It was billed as a congressional hearing about vouchers for after-school programs, but it was more akin to a grand jury proceeding,...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Making Technology Meaningful

  Get animated: Clay and cameras enable youths at Atlanta After-School All-Stars to create clay animation projects. Photo: Atlanta After-School All-Stars OK, so...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Building the Case for Entrepreneur Ed

  A group of educators, advocates and donors has been meeting under the auspices of the Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Group (YESG) to ponder...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  A Cure for Tedium

  Vox, Atlanta Sitting in class one day, scribbling endless notes, I started to daydream. I imagined myself at the park with the...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Xerox Complex

  Vox, Atlanta “This has to be a crime,” I thought to myself bitterly. “Two inches. … Two inches is the limit, and...

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  After School Programs in the 21st Century: Their Potential and What It Takes to Achieve It

  Harvard Family Research Project Research tells us that participation in after-school programs improves academics, school attendance rates, punctuality, grades and scores on...

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  The Over-Scheduling Myth

  Child Trends The common perception that today’s youth are suffering due to unbearably busy schedules is a myth, this brief reports. The...

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  Current-Generation Youth Programs: What Works, What Doesn’t and at What Cost?

  Rand Corporation The most beneficial after-school programs cost the most, writes Rand education researcher Megan Beckett. While most of the past evaluations...