Youth Today
All posts tagged "OST"
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Web Watch for April 2002
Education BBC Education Online: Count Me Inwww.bbc.co.uk/education/revisewise is a part of BBC Online’s enormous education site dedicated to children. Created as...
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Voices of Students on Engagement: A Report on the 2006 High School Survey of Student Engagement
Indiana University This survey of students in 110 high schools in 26 states aims to illustrate how intellectually engaged high school students...
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Tool Kit for Creating Your Own Truancy Reduction Program
U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention This online toolkit covers such topics as the extent of truancy, its causes and...
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Foster Kids Waive at College
A decade ago, Roy Block, president of the Texas Foster Families Association, rarely heard about former foster youths going to college. Oh,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Afterschool Training Tookit
http://www.sedl.org/afterschool/toolkits From math to art, this online toolkit helps after-school programs create high-quality and fun enrichment activities with academic content. Each of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
States Pull Out Stops to Curb Truancy
Stateline School attendance data have long been linked to school funding – with better attendance equating to more money from the state....
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One-in-Five Kids Participate in After-School Programs at Faith-Based Facilities, Outpacing More Traditional After-School Settings
Junior Achievement Worldwide This survey of 1,200 teens found that nearly 18 percent say they participate in after-school programs at churches, temples...
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The Study that Ignited (or Diluted) Mentoring
You’d think an organization that was serving tens of thousands of kids and had become a household name wouldn’t feel “vulnerable.” But...
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Report Roundup for December 2006 – January 2007
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Youth Programs and Schools Find a New Way to Share
Just four years ago, Rita McCord couldn’t tell how the kids at Salvation Army Boys & Girls Clubs of Louisville were doing...
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After-School Magnets
Providence, R.I.—It’s lunchtime at Samuel W. Bridgham Middle School. Wednesday’s menu consists of beef and macaroni, garlic bread, apples and chocolate milk....
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Literacy Programs Rewrite the Book
The advent of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and first lady Laura Bush’s emphasis on literacy has been a good-news, bad-news scenario...
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Report Roundup for November 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
After-Life for After School
Bricca P. Sweet doesn’t want another federal after-school grant. Don’t misunderstand: They’ve helped her in the past. But now that her community...
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Report Roundup for October 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Research of Note for October 2006
Capturing Promising Practices in Recruitment and Retention of Frontline Youth WorkersCornerstones for Kids/National Collaboration for YouthAvailable free at www.nassembly.org/nydic/documents/CompletePublication.pdf. The Human Services...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Don’t Deify Graduation Rates
The buzz about improving the high school graduation rate is becoming a roar. Governors’ children’s cabinets are picking this as the leading...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Recreation, Curfews and Depression: Major Problems Confront Youth
In addition to the long-term challenges of reforming the major city and state systems for New Orleans’ youth, some specific problems won’t...
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Youth Groups Bring Hammers and Swings
Following are some of the relief efforts conducted by national organizations in the areas affected by the hurricanes: YouthBuild USA: Hundreds of...
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Fewer Kids, More Partners
Out of the 180 agencies that belong to the Greater New Orleans After School Partnership, only 20 are running after-school programs a...
