All posts tagged "OST"

• 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...

• Opinion

  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

  Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools

  Forum for Youth Investment (FYI) Given the “size and diversity of the youth-serving sector,” FYI notes, “it is unrealistic to expect that...

• News

  Afterschool for the Global Age

  Asia and International Studies in the Schools This report presents the findings from a national meeting convened by the Asia Society and...

• News

  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...

• News

  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...

• News

  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,...

• 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...

• 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....