All posts tagged "OST"

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  Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

  U.S. Census Bureau Thirty-three percent of 26- to 29-year-old women have a bachelor’s degree – an increase of 6 percentage points since...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Process Evaluations: A Guide for Out-of-School Time PractitionersOutcome Evaluations: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Practitioners

  Child Trends8 and 12 pages, respectively. Free. The first of these two briefs explains process evaluations and clearly outlines methods for conducting...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Center for After-School Excellence

  www.afterschoolexcellence.org Launched last fall by The After School Corporation (TASC), the site provides up-to-date information on New York-based certificate programs, continuing education...

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  When Girls Don’t Graduate, We All Fail

  National Women’s Law Center Female dropouts earn significantly lower wages than male dropouts, are at greater risk of unemployment and are more...

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  Afterschool Matters: Creative Programs That Connect Youth Development and Student Achievement

  Edited by Sara Hill Corwin Press 144 pages. $25.95. Seven experts in programs geared toward struggling children present essays on how to...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Afterschool Advantage

  Edited by Terry Peterson and Sybil Fix Center for Afterschool and Community Education 72 pages. Free. This collection of writing by national...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Revealing Minds: Assessing to Understand and Support Struggling Learners

  Craig Pohlman Wiley Publishers 352 pages. $29.95. Using the philosophy of All Kinds of Minds, this book uses real-life examples to stress...

• 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...

• Opinion

  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...