All posts tagged "OST"

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  America’s Child Care Crisis: A Crime Prevention Tragedy

  This report synthesizes five new studies of varying size and focus, all showing a strong correlation between quality educational child care and...

• News

  Success Depends on Building Coalitions

  Most of the media attention on charter schools emphasizes individual struggles or isolated success stories. One of the most exciting possibilities gets...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Reading Between the Lines

  Over the past few months I have amassed a stack of newspaper articles about youth – not so much by design as...

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  A Piece of the Puzzle: How States Can Use Education to Make Work Pay for Welfare Recipients

  As little as one semester of full-time training can result in a salary increase of as much as $10,000 for a former...

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  Community Counts: How Youth Organizations Matter for Youth Development

  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...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Abstinence Dominates School Sex Ed

  Fewer than half of the country’s sex education classes offer information on where to get birth control (45 percent) or how to...

• News

  Conflicting Views On Dropout Rate

  By Amy Bracken Two recently released reports offer conflicting views on U.S. education. The first, “Do You Know… The Good News About...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Conflicting Views On Dropout Rate

  Two recently released reports offer conflicting views on U.S. education. The first, “Do You Know… The Good News About American Education?,” sponsored...

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  The Right Start: Conditions of Babies and Their Families in America’s Largest Cities

  Annie E. Casey Foundation Babies born in the nation’s 50 largest cities are likely to start life at a significant disadvantage compared...

• News

  Rural Teens Talk Trash And Cash, Pick Up Skills

  ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C.—Prosperity flies by the car window on the 70-mile drive from high-tech Durham to this economically depressed city: acres of...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Natural Allies: Youth Agencies & Charter Schools

  To hear the nation’s leading Democratic and Republican politicians tell it during the recent federal budget debate, the most urgent issues facing...