All posts tagged "OST"

• ► Reports

  Diplomas Count: Ready for What? Preparing for College, Careers and Life After High School

  Editorial Projects in Education Research Center/Education Week Today’s high school graduates will need at least some college education in order to land...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Summer O’Malley

  Summer O’Malley Leader G.E.M. Living Classrooms Foundation (410) 685-0295 www.gemmaryland.org Age: 31. Salary: $13 per hour. About the Program: G.E.M. (Girls Empowerment...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Ending the Silent Epidemic

  www.silentepidemic.org Launched as part of a new national movement to curtail the number of high school dropouts, this site offers resources to...

• ► Reports

  Dropout Risk Factors and Exemplary Programs

  Communities in Schools/National Center for Dropout Prevention The evidence compiled in this study shows that dropping out of school is almost always...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  College Rules! How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College

  Sherrie Nist-Olejnik, Ph.D., and Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Ph.D. Ten Speed Press 304 pages, $14.95. One of the biggest challenges as a student...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Cool Colleges for the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different

  Donald Asher Ten Speed Press 287 pages, $21.95. A Princeton Review for the average teenage space cadet. As the title would indicate,...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Dropout Summit Produces a Plan

  More than 100 organizations representing foundations, government policymakers and education and community leaders endorsed a 10-point plan last month to reduce the...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Teacher Drops Out

  Teacher Magazine – distributed for the past 17 years to every public school in the country – ceased publication with its May/June...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  School Daze

  Represent, New York There I was on the train to visit City-As-School for the first time. It was an alternative school for...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  My Escape from High School

  New Youth Connections, New York  When I think about all the years I spent sitting in class, what stands out is an...

• Research

  Quality Time After School: What Instructors Can Do to Enhance Learning

  Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) Available at http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/213_publication.pdf. Youth workers may be scrambling to keep up with the avalanche of recent research on the...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Cyber.rules: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet

  Joanie Farley Gillispie and Jayne Gackenbach W.W. Norton & Co. 272 pages. $23.95. The Internet has massively changed the way we identify...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Justice Investigates Reading First

  The Justice Department has begun a probe of the Reading First program, one of the Bush administration’s signature efforts to boost youth...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  A Rocky Path Back to School

  The Boston Globe Last summer, two outreach workers began trying to persuade the 1,660 students who dropped out of Boston’s public schools...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Make Sure Children’s Cabinets Matter

  All of a sudden, it seems, time is on everyone’s mind. In New York state, for example, the governor is challenging schools...

• News

  Assessing the Well-Being of Adolescents: Guides for Out-of School Time Program Practitioners

  Child Trends Three new Research-to-Results briefs from the nonprofit Child Trends offer research-based advice and assistance to after-school practitioners charged with looking...

• News

  Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools

  Forum for Youth Investment (FYI) Given the “size and diversity of the youth-serving sector,” FYI notes, “it is unrealistic to expect that...

• News

  Afterschool for the Global Age

  Asia and International Studies in the Schools This report presents the findings from a national meeting convened by the Asia Society and...

• News

  Education Actions May Help Improve Implementation and Evaluation of Supplemental Educational Services

  U.S. Government Accountability Office The No Child Left Behind Act requires school districts with failing schools that receive Title I funds to...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Homework Time Action Pack

  Center for Afterschool & Community Education $120. A multimedia package designed for after-school providers to integrate into a daily program that includes...