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

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  City Roles in Creating High School Alternatives for Struggling Students

  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded the National League of Cities to work with five cities (Corpus Christi, Texas; Hartford, Conn.;...

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  Common Ground: Education and the Military Meeting the Needs of Students

  Educators can adapt many of the best practices the military applies to instruct secondary students enrolled in a cross-section of programs, including...

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  College Student Debt Increases

  Student Debt and the Class of 2009 The Project on Student Debt This report, fifth in an annual series that examines cumulative...

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  City-wide Coordination of After-School Programs Helps Kids

  Hours of OpportunityThe RAND Corporation Coordination among institutions that provide after-school activities to youths might be the key to better and more...

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  Blacks, Hispanics Trail in Higher Ed; Women Lead

  Minorities in Higher Education 2010American Council on Education Higher education attainment rates for college-aged African-Americans and Hispanics have dropped across the board,...

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  Community Schools Can Improve Rural Education

  The Rural Solution: How Community Schools Can Reinvigorate Rural Education Center for American Progress For the one in five students in the...

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  Combine Community Schools with Expanding Learning Time to Help Disadvantaged Youth

  Breaking the Mold: Combining Community Schools with Expanded Learning Time to Help Educationally Disadvantaged Students Center for American Progress   Students who...

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  Characteristics of Bullying, Bullying Victims, and Schools

  What Characteristics of Bullying, Bullying Victims, and Schools Are Associated with Increased Reporting of Bullying to School Officials? National Center for Education...

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  A Fairer Deal for College Students

  Sen. Tom Harkin makes the case for reforming for-profit colleges, in an op-ed in The Washington Post.  He writes: “Too many of...

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  Big Gaps, Small Gaps

  Some Colleges and Universities Do Better Than Others in Graduating Hispanic Students The Education Trust As the fastest growing minority in America,...

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  AfterZones: Creating a Citywide System to Support and Sustain High-Quality After-School Programs

    Public/Private Ventures & The Wallace Foundation P/PV analyzes the success and impediments in implementing one of the country’s more well-known citywide...

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  Addressing the Unmet Educational Needs of Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems

  Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Georgetown Public Policy Institute Youths who go through both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems often...

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  College- and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success

    Education Sector This report focuses on a new way of determining which high schools are turning out the students best prepared...

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  Community Schools Improve Graduation Rates

    National Association of Secondary School Principals and the Coalition for Community Schools Community schools are effective in increasing high school graduation...

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  Costs Up, Faculty Down at Public Colleges

  Higher tuition. Less faculty. That’s the story among      colleges and universities throughout the country, according to a new Center on Budget...

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  Afterschool Workforce Development Strategies: From Recruitment to Career Pathways

    Children Now After-school workforce development projects that focus their outreach efforts on specific demographics, such as high school and college students,...

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  A Guide to Effective Investments in Positive Youth Development: Implications of Research for Financing and Sustaining Programs and Services for Youth

  The Finance Project This paper reviews some of the most recent research on what makes an effective youth development program, and seeks...

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  Building Blocks For Kids: Creating Intervention Systems That Support Young Children’s Healthy Development

    Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This webcast, a one-hour recording of which is available online, focuses on how states...

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  America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009

  Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics An annual federal inter-agency report shows a few small changes in the well-being of...

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  Community Colleges: A Route of Upward Economic Mobility

  Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Four-year colleges and universities tend to dominate the discourse on American higher education, but this report...