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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...

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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...

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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