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Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2010
It's not easy to keep young people on task for learning in a youth prison, but David Domenici, the principal of the Maya Angelou Academy, a charter-like school serving incarcerated juveniles, is trying to do it while at the same time creating a model program for improving educational services for young offenders. Located at the New Beginnings…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Demonstration Programs, Nonprofit Organizations, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2006
Faced with stiffer economic competition and worried about the skills of their future workforces, many states are trying to connect education from preschool through postsecondary so that more students are prepared for further study, work, and citizenship. In the past decade, 30 states have created what are often called "P-16" councils or …
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), State Government, Educational Policy, College Preparation