On Monday night, Ralph Moore Jr. said a prayer for his beloved Baltimore amid the blazes and looting and youths hurling rocks...
Call it summer learning loss, summer slide or brain drain. The loss of critical reading and math skills among children during the...
CHESTERTOWN, Md. — Jack the Beagle proved a big hit in Randy Decker’s fourth-grade class. Decker’s students loved reading to the dog,...
Many of the teens in the impoverished section of San Antonio had never seen a garden before, let alone planted vegetables in...
WASHINGTON — The head of the union representing employees at the federalOffice of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has called for the...
The nonprofit Communities In Schools relies on some 60,000 adult volunteers around the U.S. to mentor students in kindergarten through high school...
Child homelessness in the United States hit a record high in 2013, afflicting nearly 2.5 million children, or one in 30, according...
Child poverty, hunger, child abuse and neglect, obesity and a lack of health insurance are among “urgent” priorities for children’s health in...
Demand for after-school programs far exceeds supply in the United States, particularly among African-American and Hispanic families, a new report says. “America...
The nonprofit Journalism Center on Children & Families, a go-to resource for journalists for two decades, will close at the end of...
Child poverty increased in 35 of the biggest U.S. cities in the past eight years, and millions of children now live in...
WASHINGTON — Irv Katz comes from a long line of family members who have prided themselves on serving their communities, dating to...
Children’s programs are projected to receive only 2 cents on every dollar of a $1.4 trillion increase in federal spending over the...
Nearly one in five children in the United States lived in poverty last year, with a much higher proportion of poverty among...
Deborah Lowe Vandell, founding dean of the School of Education at the University of California-Irvine, has been named National Afterschool Champion by...
WASHINGTON — Surging demand for out-of-school programs far exceeds supply and advocates are asking lawmakers to boost the budget this fall. The...
Eleven major foundations have pledged to spend a total of nearly $200 million for efforts to help boys and young men of...
The LA’s BEST after-school program Carla Sanger has run for 26 years has enjoyed backing from five consecutive mayors of Los Angeles,...
Carla Sanger’s father, Harold Galperin, a beloved principal at Baltimore City’s largest elementary school in the 1950s, taught her some of the...
The Baltimore-based National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) says only about one-third of low-income youths participate in a summer learning program, and those...