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All posts tagged "summer learning"
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2.0KNewsAlaska Marijuana Tax Funds Out-of-school Programs in 30-plus Communities
As more states legalize marijuana, people who work with youth want to rise to the occasion. If legalization has a negative...
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3.0KNewsYouthWorks in Massachusetts Reimagines Summer Youth Employment
This summer, teenagers in Massachusetts may be conducting oral history interviews about the impact of COVID-19 in their community. They may be...
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3.6KNewsSchools Urged to Use After-school, Community Programs to Help in Reopening
After-school and summer program leaders are trying to get heard. It’s as if they’re standing on a hilltop and waving: We can...
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2.6KNewsSummer Youth Programming a Patchwork of Open, Closed, Virtual Due to COVID-19
Earlier this week, Lisa Haverty cleared away board games, dolls and other items from the large central room at Haverty Hollow, the...
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1.5K► ReportsGetting Support for Summer Learning: How Federal, State, City, and District Policies Affect Summer Learning Programs
A new report from the Wallace Foundation draws on the data and experience of five urban school districts and community partners to...
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2.6KNewsEntrepreneurship Among Black Kids Has Deep Meaning at Tulsa’s Greenwood Center
These survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, in which as many as 300 people were killed, lived through a white mob shooting,...
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1.1KGrantsCincinnati Region Summer Learning Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Education, Summer Learning, OST, Youth Development, Disadvantaged Youth | Amount: Up to $1,000 | Deadline: Mar. 2, 2020
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1.8KNewsEqualize Access to Summer Activities, National Academy of Sciences Advises
Summertime can either reinforce or redress the inequalities that exist for young people. That’s one takeaway from the National Academy of Sciences’...
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1.7KNewsSummer Learning CEO on R&D, More Chances for Low-income Youth
Youth Today reporter Stell Simonton spoke with Aaron Philip Dworkin, CEO of the National Summer Learning Association, on the closing day of...
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1.8KNewsSummer Camp Part of Year-round Farm for Youngsters in Georgia
The last week of summer camp, students began boiling milk on Monday. They stood over a stove in the family and consumer...
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3.1KNewsUpward Bound Gives High Schoolers Boost With Summer Program of Drones
Kayla Linard stood high in the balcony of the Kennesaw State University gymnasium in Marietta, Ga., holding a white remote control device.
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2.4KNewsGlobal Kids Summer Program Opens Students’ Eyes to Foreign Affairs
What if you were a member of the National Security Council and learned that a foreign country could be building nuclear weapons...
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1.6KGuest Opinion EssaySummer Programming Is Good Opportunity to Teach Cultural Sensitivity
Kyle Kashuv, a conservative, Jewish student who survived the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, made headlines because his admission to Harvard University was...
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2.5KGuest Opinion EssayAfter-school Programming Strengthens Career Exploration
Youth need to participate in active learning opportunities that cultivate their interests and promote positive growth. Youth also need educational experiences that...
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2.2KNewsSouth Dakota YWCA ‘Breakaway’ Provides Services to Youth, Women
A jumble of multicolored wires spilled out of the open side of a computer as Leilani Liggins, 6, dressed in a pink...
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2.5KGuest Opinion EssaySummer Learning Should Be Nothing Like School: Use Thematic Curriculum
In light of high-stakes testing, children spend much of their in-school time listening to the teacher instruct whole group lessons and then...
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1.4KGrantsLA Afterschool and Summer Music, Arts and Cultural Education Program Grants
Subject: Education, Music, Arts, Culture, Afterschool, Summer Learning | Deadline: May 17, 2019 | Amount: Up to $5,000
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3.2KGuest Opinion EssayAfter-school Programs Too Important, Needed to Be Endangered by Budget Cuts
With the release of President Donald Trump’s budget, summer program and after-school advocates around the country are again gearing up to rally...
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3.6KNewsTrump Budget Would Kill After-school Funding, Leaving Providers Fearful
For the past two years it’s been a rite of spring for Trump to propose killing the program, for advocates to defend...
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1.7KNewsShutdown Has Not Affected Most After-school Funding — Yet
Most after-school and summer learning programs are not significantly impacted right now by the partial government shutdown, but there is concern they...
