All posts tagged "OST"

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Global GraffitiWall

  Tamara Sniad, Claudia Weisburd, Joana Davis-DíazCenter for Afterschool Education/Foundations76 pages. $24.95. This partner to GraffitiWall contains international-themed activities that build geography and...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Afterschool Investments Project

  http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/afterschool A project of the Child Care Bureau in the U.S. Administration on Children and Families, this site promotes high-quality after-school programming....

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  NCAA Guide for the College-Bound Student-Athlete

  http://www2.ncaa.org/portal/media_and_events/ncaa_publications/general_interest/cbsa.html This online guide from the National Collegiate Athletic Association helps high school athletes, their coaches and their families navigate the college...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Teachers Take After-School Tutoring Closer to Kids’ Homes

  The Columbus Dispatch Some elementary school teachers in Ohio are riding buses home with their students and tutoring them in their own...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Area Schools Set to Lose Millions under Medicaid Policy Changes

  The Washington Post Educators nationwide are protesting a Bush administration rule that would cut about $3.6 billion over the next five years...

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  Advancing Achievement: Findings from an Independent Evaluation of a Major After-School Initiative

  Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) Several publications spun off from P/PV’s recent evaluation of Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) – an eight-year,...

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  America’s Youth at 20: School Enrollment, Training, and Employment Transitions Between Ages 19 and 20

  U.S. Department of Labor Twenty-year-old females are 20 percent more likely to be enrolled in college than are their male counterparts, says...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  FAFSA4caster

  www.fafsa4caster.ed.gov Created to help families better plan for college, the FAFSA4caster (Free Application for Federal Student Aid “Forecaster”) uses a form half...

• News

  Watch After-School Vouchers Get Shot Down in Congress

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

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Watch out for Fake GEDS

  Those working with dropouts who want to get their GEDS should be aware of a growing Web scam. Companies have been selling...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Superman Finds New Fans among Reading Instructors

  The New York Times Comics-based literacy programs have spread since their creation six years ago by graduate students at Columbia University. The...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Let’s Stress the Fun in Fundamental

  Everyone knows that reading is fundamental; we even have a national organization by that name. Yet a recent report from the National...

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  Numbers and Rates of Public High School Dropouts: School Year 2004–05

  National Center for Education Statistics The high school dropout rate was 3.9 percent for the 2004-2005 school year – similar to the...

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  Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

  U.S. Census Bureau Thirty-three percent of 26- to 29-year-old women have a bachelor’s degree – an increase of 6 percentage points since...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Process Evaluations: A Guide for Out-of-School Time PractitionersOutcome Evaluations: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Practitioners

  Child Trends8 and 12 pages, respectively. Free. The first of these two briefs explains process evaluations and clearly outlines methods for conducting...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Center for After-School Excellence

  www.afterschoolexcellence.org Launched last fall by The After School Corporation (TASC), the site provides up-to-date information on New York-based certificate programs, continuing education...

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  When Girls Don’t Graduate, We All Fail

  National Women’s Law Center Female dropouts earn significantly lower wages than male dropouts, are at greater risk of unemployment and are more...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Afterschool Matters: Creative Programs That Connect Youth Development and Student Achievement

  Edited by Sara Hill Corwin Press 144 pages. $25.95. Seven experts in programs geared toward struggling children present essays on how to...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Afterschool Advantage

  Edited by Terry Peterson and Sybil Fix Center for Afterschool and Community Education 72 pages. Free. This collection of writing by national...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Revealing Minds: Assessing to Understand and Support Struggling Learners

  Craig Pohlman Wiley Publishers 352 pages. $29.95. Using the philosophy of All Kinds of Minds, this book uses real-life examples to stress...