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CollegeBound Initiative (CBI) is a school-based, college access program of YWLN that serves disadvantaged boys and girls in underserved, inner-city public schools.

Description GWN is seeking a service-improvement grant to help us streamline and improve our curriculum-creation process for our Mentoring Program’s regularly refreshed writing workshops, and develop...

The Hispanic AIDS Forum's program goal is to equip participating youth with the necessary to skills to realize their potential as young leaders in the field of community health promotion.

East Harlem Tutorial Program would like to hire a Director of Instruction and Curriculum who will work on a daily basis coaching the school’s instructional staff and providing training and guidance.

The Brooklyn Youth Chorus (BYC)has identified a need for changes to the chorus division structure in order to improve the quality of teaching in each division, expand performance opportunities for...

The goal of the Teaching Artist Training improvement project is to better prepare ENACT’s corps of 50 teaching artists to work most effectively with different student populations, with a particular...

Funds were given to document Harlem Children’s Zone’s (HCZ) efforts to strengthen the capacities of families and communities to support the academic and personal development of children and youth.

Investigators will prepare the Promising Practices Rating System (PPRS), an observational measure of process quality in after-school programs developed in our earlier research, so that it can be used...

Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S., but they are significantly underrepresented in higher education.

School district administrators are responsible for making important decisions about instructional policy, such as the evaluation of teacher performance, designing professional development for...

Numerous federal initiatives are increasing the incentives and pressures for state and local education agencies to adopt policies and practices that are grounded in research, yet little is known...

What factors contribute to gender differences in adolescent health risk behaviors (e.g., cigarette, alcohol, and drug use, sexual activity, birth control use)? How can this information be used in...

Although research on effective child and adolescent mental health interventions has grown significantly over the past two decades, public mental health care systems have been slow to draw on this...

The common standards movement, which seeks to establish similar academic standards across multiple states, is rapidly gaining traction—the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief...

How do incidents of extreme violence or other stressors in adolescents’ neighborhoods affect their cognitive functioning and school performance?

How does financial aid affect the lives of low-income college students?

How do local economic and social changes affect school disengagement and dropout?

How do intensive policing practices affect adolescent boys’ anti-social behaviors? Do these policies differ across racial lines?

The over-representation of African-American youth among those disciplined with out-of-school suspension and expulsion is a major issue in educational equity.

Developed by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time at the Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College, the Afterschool Program Practices Tool (APT) is an instrument designed to examine...