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Expanded Learning’s Limits

While efforts to expand the school day in communities around the country are pitched as a way to boost youth achievement and...

The American Way to Change: How National Service & Volunteers Are Transforming America

Shirley SagawaJossey-Bass221 pages. $29.95 hardcover. Few could be more qualified than Shirley Sagawa, who has been called “the founding mother of...

Skills for Families, Skills for Life: How to Help Parents and Caregivers Meet the Challenges of Everyday Living

Revised and Expanded EditionAmy Simpson, Paula Kohrt, Linda M. Shadoin, Joni Cook-Griffin and Jane L. PattersonBoys Town Press162 pages plus CD-ROM....

Out With It: Gay and Straight Teens Write About Homosexuality

Edited by Al DesettaYouth Communication2nd edition. 153 pages. $13.95 paperback. This anthology of 25 heartfelt essays captures the gay teen experience....

Website Reveals Applicants

The U.S. Department of Education has launched a website that brings a new level of transparency to its grant-making process. The website,...

DC Action for Children

www.dcactionforchildren.org DC Action for Children, which aims to provide educational and work-related opportunities for youth, has a launched a newly improved website...

State Health Facts

www.statehealthfacts.org A comprehensive online source of national health policy topics and data, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation’s StateHealthFacts.org has been enhanced...

Girls Health

www.twitter.com/girlshealth The U.S. Office on Women’s Health (under the Health and Human Services Department) has started a Girls Health twitter account, which...

Attendance Counts

www.attendancecounts.org The national organization promoting the role of school attendance in academic success launched this new home page. Dividing its content into...

… Work Fitness into After-School Programs

Youths face off in ASAS-LA’s annual “March Madness” basketball tournament. Boys and girls teams scrimmage all year to qualify for the...

School Girls Unite

Washington, D.C., and Mali, West Africa(301) 929-8808 http://www.schoolgirlsunite.org Objective: For young women in America and Africa to collaborate as philanthropists and...

Dawn Folsom

Dawn Folsom Executive DirectorProject United Alliance Fort Wayne, Ind.(260) 417-6510 Age: 22. Salary: $40,000. My Organization: Folsom began to design the...

Awards for June 2010

Sam Cobbs James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards For: Extraordinary leaders who are advancing innovative and effective solutions to significant state issues. By:...

Attracting Those Older Teens

In elementary school, out-of-school-time (OST) programs not only give children new opportunities to learn and grow, they also provide families with...

A Glorious Revolution for Youth and Communities: Service-Learning and Model Communities

George I. Whitehead III and Andrew P. KitzrowRowman & Littlefield Education129 pages. $70 hardcover, $27.95 paperback After helping Salisbury, Md., become...

Safe Harbor

This absorbing Hallmark Channel TV movie reveals the 1980s origins of the Safe Harbor Boys Home in Jacksonville, Fla. Doug and...

Money Medical: Healthy Money Management

Northwest Media Inc. Eight 45-minute units. CD-ROM $69. A lively CD-ROM curriculum introduces sound financial management skills through the experiences of...

Blog Action Network

Blog Action Network http://www.change.org/action-network This self-described “online hub for social change,” http://Change.org, has launched what it is calling the web’s first...

Net Cetera: Chatting With Kids About Being Online

Net Cetera: Chatting With Kids About Being Onlinehttp://www.onguardonline.gov/topics/net-cetera.aspx This Federal Trade Commission effort is an online guide to help parents help...