All posts tagged "OST"

• 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...

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  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...

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  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,...

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  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...

• Opinion

  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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....

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...