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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Course Credit Accrual and Dropping Out of High School, by Student Characteristics

National Center for Educational Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences Educators and parents who are looking for warning signs that a high school...

1.5 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2007

2008 Survey of Washington State Youth in Foster Care

In what is being called the most extensive single-state, direct survey of foster youth about their experiences in care, about three-quarters of...

Administrative Management Capacity in Out-of-School Time Organizations: An Exploratory Study

The Wallace Foundation At a time when successful programs are being encouraged to serve more and more youth, out-of-school time (OST) program...

A Report on the Opinions and Attitudes of the Millennial Generation toward the United States Public Service Academy

Between April 3 and April 8, SocialSphere Strategies of Cambridge, Mass., polled 800 members of the "Millennial Generation" - college-bound high school...