All posts tagged "OST"

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  Choices, Changes and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era

  Center on Education Policy Nearly two-thirds of U.S. school districts report that since the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) during...

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  The Quality of School-Age Child Care in After-School Settings

  Child and Early Education Research Connections Although research indicates that regular participation in high-quality after-school programs yields many positive developmental benefits for...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Ready = Ready = Ready

  The month of May produced yet another study showing that the skills young people need to be ready for life beyond high...

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  Prevention Cures Fiscal Pain

  Photo: Photo courtesy of SAY San Diego—It took just a few days for Michael Carr to learn the cold realities of working...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Abstinence Ed Fires Back

  Walk 10 paces, turn around and draw your conclusions. That’s what abstinence education proponents and comprehensive sex ed proponents have been doing...

• Adapt or Die

  A magnifier helps children look for living things in lessons on Earth science. Not long ago, Hands On Science Outreach was a...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  School’s Caring Helps Students Beat Odds

  The Boston Globe Boston International High, created in 2003 to educate recent immigrants, graduated its first class in June, and all 35...

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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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...