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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Leading to Reading

http://www.rif.org Reading Is Fundamental’s new website (and its mirror bilingual site, Semillitas de Aprendzaje) is a research-based educational resource designed to help...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Web Watch for November 2007

Child Welfare Adoption Learning Partnerswww.adoptionlearningpartners.org/courses/overview.cfmTwo new online courses at this site aim to educate prospective adoptive parents about a variety of...

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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...