The role of the community and the provision of social supports rarely make it to the forefront of research or mainstream policy strategies dealing with postsecondary ...
During presidential election cycles in particular, voters’ concerns are brought to the forefront ofthe public debate and discussed widely in the media.
The YMCA of Greater Seattle—one of the largest youth-serving agencies in Western Washington—is measuring its work a little differently.
No stranger to ...
Municipal leaders, city staff and community partners are invited to register for a free, hour-long webinar on an emerging city strategy to help struggling students ...
Youth development is often described as an "emerging field." Yet youth development principles have long been at the core of community-based youth-serving ...
Pima County, Ariz., is getting attention for using Ready by 21 strategies to improve early childhood education and youth development. This story shows how the United ...
The U.S. Department of Education has established a waiver process to help states obtain additional flexibility in meeting No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) ...
Safe Start Promising Approaches (SSPA) is the second phase of a community-based initiative focused on developing and fielding interventions to prevent and reduce the ...
Executive Director of the Afterschool Alliance Jodi Grant, backed by a new report, presents the arguments for the expanded school day--instead of afterschool programs.
This new concludes that contrary to popular perception that most U.S. public schools require at least as much or even more instructional time for students than ...
This last of three evaluations looks at a Wallace-supported effort to build up after-school programs for middle school students in New York City’s Beacon ...
The Muzak Heart & Soul Foundation’s mission is to support music education. Through the Foundation's Music Matters Grant Program, grants of up to $6,000 ...
Each year, the Department of Education funds 21st Century Community Learning Centers to states, allocated to support the creation of community learning centers that ...
The Foundation supports high-quality research that addresses our research that enhances our understanding of how youth settings work, how they affect youth ...