All posts tagged "out-of-school time and afterschool"

American Camp Association Urges National System for Employee Background Checks

  As summer camp season approaches, the American Camp Association is urging passage of a law that would make the screening of...

Top Headlines 03/06/2014

Juvenile Justice Youth accused of plotting Tennessee school shooting still in juvenile court. . Michigan Supreme Court examining cases of more than...

Top Headlines 03/05/2014

Juvenile Justice Alternatives to detention in Connecticut. Higher levels of direct commitment seen in some Florida jurisdictions. Education Obama proposes two percent...

Innovative Ways to Engage Kids Displayed at National AfterSchool Association Conference

NEW YORK — If you’re a kid in Park Slope, Brooklyn, chances are you’ve stumbled into the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. What...

Award Ceremony Honors New York After-School Educators, Programs

NEW YORK — The tables at Midtown Manhattan’s ornate Cipriani restaurant, with its high, grand arched ceilings, were set with bouquets of...

Top Headlines 03/04/2014

Juvenile Justice Juvenile justice system feeds into adult corrections. Education impacted by solitary confinement. Education Common Core debate could ignite legislative session...

Educating Google Generation Demands Change, Will After-School Take Lead?

Jaime Casap, photo by Leonard Witt   NEW YORK — Jaime Casap, Google’s official global education evangelist, told a gathering of afterschool educators in...

Top Headlines 03/03/2014

Juvenile Justice Improving the system in Kentucky. National effort to raise age of juvenile jurisdiction gathers steam. Don’t seal juvenile records in...

Getting to the Heart of Education: Listening to the Whole At-Risk Student

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” —Aristotle Many at-risk students in schools are crying out for help...

National AfterSchool Association Conference Draws Educators to New York

NEW YORK — Thousands of teachers, administrators and other education professionals from across the country are gathering in midtown Manhattan Friday for...

Report Cites Four Characteristics of Effective Afterschool Programs

  The most effective afterschool programs share four characteristics, according to a recent report from the Afterschool Alliance. The programs have a...

Teaching and Learning: Achieving Education for All

Taking a Deeper Dive into Afterschool: Postive Outcomes and Promising Practices

Young Voices Become Strong Through WritersCorps

Reading poetry at the WritersCorps Live event in San Francisco on Feb. 20 were (from left) Rowan Ellis, Ifat Maru, Cecilia Vigil,...

Top Headlines 02/25/2014

Juvenile Justice Addressing the school to prison pipeline. Education Indiana education efforts in legislature running out of time. Child Welfare Massachusetts governor...

Top Headlines 02/24/2014

Juvenile Justice Learning skills while making amends. Marijuana a civil for juveniles? Sending more kids directly to juvenile court in Nebraska. Maryland...

Top Headlines 02/21/2014

Juvenile Justice Louisiana juvenile chief apologizes for impact of closed youth prison on community. Education Less than ten percent of Arizona minority...

Top Stories 02/20/2014

Juvenile Justice Kentucky DJJ saddled with pension obligations. Education Early childhood education a partisan issue in Vermont. Expanding pre-school in the U.S....

The Common Core and Afterschool

The L.A.C.E.R. (Literacy, Arts, Culture, Education and Recreation) afterschool program in Los Angeles offers a variety of activities to students , 90...

Top Headlines 02/19/2014

Juvenile Justice Minnesota advocates appeal to court to block access to juvenile records. Stopping rape in juvenile detention. Education Music education is...