Youth Today
All posts tagged "out-of-school time and afterschool"
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Analysis of Obama’s Budget Proposal as it Relates to Youth Issues
“A breakdown and analysis of the President’s 2013 budget proposal as it relates to children and families.”
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Analysis of State Bullying Laws and Policies
U.S. Department of Education The department examined the extent to which states legislatively required schools to address bullying and what model policies...
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College Completion: The Latino Edition
The College Completion Agenda – Latino Edition College Board This new reports looks at what can be done to increase the number...
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College Completion: The Latino Edition
The College Completion Agenda – Latino Edition College Board This new reports looks at what can be done to increase the number...
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Achievement Trends of Schools and Students in Arizona’s Title I School Improvement Program
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) This report describes how Arizona public schools found to need improvement under Title I of No Child...
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Affordability and Transfer Critical to Increase Bachelor’s Degree Completion
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education The importance of the U.S. having more college graduates and the role that community...
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An Evaluation of the After School Matters Program
Northwestern University Although many policy makers and those in academia concur that after-school programs are important for students, participation in these programs...
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Achievement Gap Between Caucasians and Hispanic Students in Grades Four and Eight
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) There were no significant changes in the differences in math and reading for white and Hispanic...
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Civic Pathways Out of Poverty and Into Opportunity
Civic Pathways Out of Poverty and Into OpportunityPhilanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) The majority of children living in poverty are of...
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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...
