By Liesel Haskell, 17 My alarm clock is blaring – it’s 5:30 a.m. I jump out of bed and head for the...
I have written this op-ed in different forms and in different places since 1979. It is spring, and that can only mean...
National groups composed of college students have always had a hard time gaining financial or programatic traction because of the nation’s vast...
President Bush is right to make after-school programming for American teens a high priority in these early days of his administration. It...
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...
The achievement gap between young black and white Americans is like the Energizer Bunny: It keeps going and going and going. And...
The achievement gap between young black and white Americans is like the Energizer Bunny: It keeps going and going and going. And...
U.S. Department of Education “The information contained in this report should be interpreted with caution,” say the authors. In addition to questionable...
Joy DryfoosCoalition for Community Schools Of the 49 community school initiatives that submitted self-evaluations for this study, 36 reported academic gains...
While about half of the estimated 12 million children from eligible households received free or reduced-price school breakfasts in the 1999-2000 school...
LOWELL, Mass.—To understand the enormous benefits of becoming a charter school, consider the Lowell Middlesex Academy: Five years ago, as an...
In the growing field of the after-school programming, all roads, it seem, lead to Flint, Mich., home of the Charles Stewart Mott...
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...
This report synthesizes five new studies of varying size and focus, all showing a strong correlation between quality educational child care and...
Most of the media attention on charter schools emphasizes individual struggles or isolated success stories. One of the most exciting possibilities gets...
Over the past few months I have amassed a stack of newspaper articles about youth – not so much by design as...
As little as one semester of full-time training can result in a salary increase of as much as $10,000 for a former...
This report is based on a study spanning 12 years, of 12-to-18-year-olds in urban and rural communities across the country, aimed at...
Fewer than half of the country’s sex education classes offer information on where to get birth control (45 percent) or how to...
By Amy Bracken Two recently released reports offer conflicting views on U.S. education. The first, “Do You Know… The Good News About...