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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...

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...

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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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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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.

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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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.

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.

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...

Guest Opinion Essay