All posts tagged "OST"

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  Meeting the High School Challenge: Making After-School Work for Older Students

  Older youths who participate in after-school programs significantly improve their chances for success, but serving them effectively is one of the greatest...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Youth Work’s Immigration Movement

  By Ed Finkel The Boys & Girls Club of West Georgia, after witnessing a 30 percent increase in Latino participants in three...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Lifting the Abandoned Children of Katrina

  New Orleans, La.—If you run a youth program in a poor community, you probably feel that you don’t have enough resources, that...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Extending Learning: Will We Ever Get It Right?

  I had a few hours to read, so I pulled out the folder into which I cram all the things that catch...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Boys & Girls Clubs Get Whacked

  The Capitol Hill-financed juggernaut that has been the Boys & Girls Clubs of America for over two decades has stalled in the...

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  The Long-Term Effects of After-School Programming on Educational Adjustment and Juvenile Crime: A Study of the LA’s BEST After-School Program

  The Afterschool Alliance An evaluation of LA’s BEST – the largest after-school program in Los Angeles – finds that youth who were...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Principal’s Guide to Afterschool Programs

  Anne Turnbaugh Lockwood Corwin Press 144 pages. $24.95. More and more schools are getting involved in the after-school industry, which was previously...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Small Schools and Urban Youth

  Gilberto Conchas and Louie Rodriguez Corwin Press 168 pages. $24.95. The small-school revolution tends to be discussed primarily by its technical issues,...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Help for When College Years Are Not So Carefree

  Chicago Tribune Students with average or above-average intelligence who benefit from special-education programs usually find that their learning and support services come...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Free Snacks

  It’s official: After-school centers located in low-income areas can be paid back for providing healthful snacks to youth as old as 18....

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Re-Militarized Zone

  New York Press Some students are angered by what they see as increasingly aggressive recruitment by the military in New York City’s...

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  Choices, Changes and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era

  Center on Education Policy Nearly two-thirds of U.S. school districts report that since the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) during...

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  The Quality of School-Age Child Care in After-School Settings

  Child and Early Education Research Connections Although research indicates that regular participation in high-quality after-school programs yields many positive developmental benefits for...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Ready = Ready = Ready

  The month of May produced yet another study showing that the skills young people need to be ready for life beyond high...

• News

  Prevention Cures Fiscal Pain

  Photo: Photo courtesy of SAY San Diego—It took just a few days for Michael Carr to learn the cold realities of working...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Abstinence Ed Fires Back

  Walk 10 paces, turn around and draw your conclusions. That’s what abstinence education proponents and comprehensive sex ed proponents have been doing...

• Adapt or Die

  A magnifier helps children look for living things in lessons on Earth science. Not long ago, Hands On Science Outreach was a...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  School’s Caring Helps Students Beat Odds

  The Boston Globe Boston International High, created in 2003 to educate recent immigrants, graduated its first class in June, and all 35...

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  California’s Afterschool Expansion

  William T. Grant Foundation This very readable report, written by consultant and former journalist Joseph Ames, details how California implemented the largest...

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  Improving Attendance and Retention in Out-of-School Time Programs

  Child Trends Few benefits can be gained from out-of-school programs without the active, consistent participation of youth. This brief provides ideas for...