All posts tagged "OST"

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  The Day Starts at 3

  by Richard Rothstein The art of Jacob Lawrence, the magnificent African-Amer-ican painter who wove color, shape, history and sociology into emotionally powerful...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Civic Education Project

    Evanston, Ill.(847) 467-2572www.ctd.northwestern.edu/cep Objective: To promote civic responsibility among young people. In a Nutshell: CEP staff members work with teachers and...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Web Watch for February 2002

    Civic Engagement  Community Building Resource Exchangewww.commbuild.org links visitors to a large, regularly updated database of resources and information about innovative and...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  A Youth Worker’s Bumpy Road to National Success

  ONE DAY, ALL CHILDREN… The Unlikely Triumph of TEACH FOR AMERICA and What I Learned Along The WayWendy KoppPublicAffairs, New York187 pp.,...

• Research

  Just Say No to Lice, but not to Nits

  Lice inspections have become a fact of life in schools and children’s programs across the country, with children required to leave school...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  CBO Access to Funds is Key in Education Bill

  While the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) squeezes into a House-Senate conference committee with wildly disparate authorization levels,...

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  First Installment of National Strategy for Suicide Prevention Unveiled: Goals and Objectives for Public, Private Sectors

  United States Surgeon General Surgeon General David Satcher, flanked by leaders of the public and private suicide prevention community, unveiled his report...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Pros and Cons of Single-Sex High Schools

  By Liesel Haskell, 17 My alarm clock is blaring – it’s 5:30 a.m. I jump out of bed and head for the...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Lost Time for Learning

  I have written this op-ed in different forms and in different places since 1979. It is spring, and that can only mean...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Aging Out @ COOL

  National groups composed of college students have always had a hard time gaining financial or programatic traction because of the nation’s vast...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Have Faith, but Deliver Results

  President Bush is right to make after-school programming for American teens a high priority in these early days of his administration. It...

• News

  A Peek at President Bush’s Youth Policy

  The federal government’s biggest after-school initiative dangles over the heads of youth-serving organizations like a pi-ata gorged with cash but hung too...

• Research

  Striving to Succeed, Daring to Fail

  The achievement gap between young black and white Americans is like the Energizer Bunny: It keeps going and going and going. And...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Striving to Succeed, Daring to Fail

  The achievement gap between young black and white Americans is like the Energizer Bunny: It keeps going and going and going. And...

• ► Reports

  Report on State Implementation of the Gun-Free Schools Act: School Year 1998-99

  U.S. Department of Education “The information contained in this report should be interpreted with caution,” say the authors. In addition to questionable...

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  Evaluation of Community Schools: An Early Look

  Joy DryfoosCoalition for Community Schools   Of the 49 community school initiatives that submitted self-evaluations for this study, 36 reported academic gains...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  School Breakfast Program Misses Two Million Youth

  While about half of the estimated 12 million children from eligible households received free or reduced-price school breakfasts in the 1999-2000 school...

• News

  Charter Schools: CBOs’ Risky Pot o’ Gold

    LOWELL, Mass.—To understand the enormous benefits of becoming a charter school, consider the Lowell Middlesex Academy: Five years ago, as an...

• ► Newsmakers

  Mott-ly Alliance

  In the growing field of the after-school programming, all roads, it seem, lead to Flint, Mich., home of the Charles Stewart Mott...

• News

  Politics of Charter Schools Makes Strange Bedfellows

  The struggles of charter schools in the nation’s capital reflects what they’re up against nationwide. Washington, D.C., charter schools are pulling 10...