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

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...

After-School Programs and Academics: Implications for Policy, Practice, and Research

Should after-school programs focus on academics, even to the point of becoming an extension of the regular school day? That’s the question...

A Good Start: Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College

MDRC/Network on Transitions to Adulthood While freshmen in college benefit from extra counseling, financial aid and tutoring, the benefits last only slightly...

Building A Better Bridge: Helping Young Adults Enter and Succeed in College

Youth Development Institute (YDI) YDI tracked 39 young people as they advanced from a earning a GED with the help of a...

Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation

Editorial Projects in Education Research Center Released by the America’s Promise Alliance to help launch its Dropout Prevention campaign, this report provides...

After School Programs in the 21st Century: Their Potential and What It Takes to Achieve It

Harvard Family Research Project Research tells us that participation in after-school programs improves academics, school attendance rates, punctuality, grades and scores on...

Advancing Achievement: Findings from an Independent Evaluation of a Major After-School Initiative

Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) Several publications spun off from P/PV’s recent evaluation of Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) – an eight-year,...