Youth Today
Posts By Stell Simonton
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1.5KNewsAfter-school Programs Step Forward to Align With Common Core
Imagine an American education system that works well for all students — a system that pulls U.S. students forward from a laggard...
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981NewsRewriting Education Law: Senate Replaces ‘No Child Left Behind’
In a major step, the U.S. Senate overhauled No Child Left Behind, passing a measure that would affect kids both in school...
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1.8KNewsSetting Standards for Out-of-School Time
Pushed by statewide after-school networks and some funders, the creation of standards is part of a broad movement toward making the quality...
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Funding for After-School Programs at Risk in Congress, Groups Say
Even as Congress works on a replacement to No Child Left Behind, millions of dollars for after-school and other youth programs appear...
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1.3KNewsCampaign Calls for Hotels to Stand up Against Child Trafficking
Roughly 100,000 kids are victims of sex trafficking in the United States, according to ECPAT-USA, a nonprofit that works to end commercial...
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1.6KNewsLegislation Would Keep Foster Kids From Having to Change Schools
The traumatic changes children in foster care face often include disrupted schooling. They may have to change schools when they first enter...
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1.7KNewsThe Corps Network Helps Court-involved Youth Nurture New Skills
“Service is really a great strategy to re-engage court-involved youth,” said Mary Ellen Sprenkel, president and CEO of the Corps Network. “It...
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1.4KNewsAward-Winning Program Highlights Effective Practices as Summer Learning Day Celebrated
Young children bound off the bus on summer mornings at Hickory Grove Elementary School in Charlotte, N.C. They’re coming to summer camp...
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2.8KNewsReport Helps Police Protect Kids While Arresting Their Parents
Each year in the United States, several million children witness the arrest of a parent. These arrests are most likely to be...
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1.1KNewsNSLA Chief Urges Support for Summer Learning — Especially on Friday
Here’s a stark picture of the “achievement gap”: Four out of five low-income kids are not reading proficiently at the end of...
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2.2KNewsWhat Three People Learned About Suicide and Kids
When Cynthia Fontanella saw the numbers, she was surprised. It wasn’t that almost 66,595 kids in the United States had killed themselves...
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3.9KNewsHas the Children’s Rights Convention Made a Difference?
The provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child have been incorporated into the laws of several countries, according...
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1.2KNewsThe Strange Career of a Children’s Rights Treaty
Sitting in the wings, unwilling to ratify the Children’s Rights Convention, were the United States and South Sudan, the only two holdouts...
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1.2KNewsWidespread Youth Unemployment Seen as Worldwide Risk
A British group called it a “ticking timebomb.” Pope Francis called it a defeat for humanity last year. And the World Economic...
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1.6KNewsDistinguished Gentlemen Present Their Truths Through Spoken Word
Founded by Honey Bell-Bey — known to the group as Ms. Honey — the Distinguished Gentlemen meets two afternoons a week and...
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993NewsAfter-school Funding Reinstated in Senate Education Bill
Fear that after-school funding will die ebbed a bit as the U.S. Senate education committee affirmed its support for a major federal...
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559News‘No Child’ Rewrite Shifts School Accountability to States, Does not Renew After-School Funding
A federal after-school program hangs in limbo as the Senate education committee forges ahead to rewrite “No Child Left Behind” — but...
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1.4KNewsGet the Big Picture When Seeking Funding: Create a Fiscal Map
The key reason an agency or community coalition does a fiscal map is “not to find huge pots of money that are...
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886NewsSpring Break Is No Picnic for Some Parents
When spring break rolls around, kids are delighted to have a vacation from school. But for working parents with limited time off,...
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1.5KNewsWhy Should Cities Invest in After-school Programs? Five Mayors Explain
After-school programs are helping reduce gang activity, crime and child obesity, five mayors of U.S. cities said Tuesday at the National After-School...
