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Small Schools and Urban Youth

Gilberto Conchas and Louie Rodriguez Corwin Press 168 pages. $24.95. The small-school revolution tends to be discussed primarily by its technical issues,...

UP: Devotions for Faith that Connects

Tim Baker and Jenn Doucette Revell 192 pages. $11.99. Talk is cheap when it comes to living in Christ’s image, Baker and...

Families in Need of Critical Assistance

Jessica Kendall American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law 130 pages. $19.99. Kendall makes recommendations for progressive reforms in state...

How to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy

Sandra Rief and Julie Heimburge Jossey Bass 352 pages. $29.95 This handbook combines phonics lessons with what its authors describe as a...

Play Therapy with Children in Crisis

Edited by Nancy Boyd Webb Guilford 489 pages. $48. Seven years ago, Webb published Play Therapy, which was widely adopted among clinicians...

Can We Talk about Race?

Beverly Daniel Tatum Beacon Press 160 pages. $22.95. Tatum, president of historically black Spelman College in Atlanta, presents four essays that get...

Youth Development Worker Competency Training Modules

National Collaboration for Youth 29 pages each. Free online. The collaboration has drawn up training modules for three of the 10 core...

Urban Youth Workers Institute

http://www.uywi.org With a sleek layout and high-tech features, the institute’s site targets those interested in training and resources about youth ministry. Podcasts...

FedSpending.org

http://www.federalspending.org Created by federal watchdog group OMB Watch, the site offers a free, searchable database of more than $14 trillion in government...

Center for Child Well-being

http://www.childwellbeing.org Basic parenting tips and detailed answers to common questions are just two of the resources this site offers to adults raising...

Adobe Youth Voices

http://www.wkcd.org/specialcollections/adobeyouthvoices/index.html This joint project of What Kids Can Do and Adobe Systems showcases multimedia productions by youth and youth media educators around...

Project Safe Childhood

http://www.projectsafechildhood.gov This U.S. Department of Justice site provides information for federal, state and local law enforcement officials on investigating and prosecuting Internet...

YouthNetwork.org

http://www.youthnetwork.org This streamlined search engine of nearly 1.2 million community resources for youth around the country helps users find local youth programs...

On the Move for October 2007

Docs for Tots Toni Smith, Deputy Exec. Director Moves to: 1000 Vermont Ave. NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005 (202) 589-0103 Alfonso...

Help for When College Years Are Not So Carefree

Chicago Tribune Students with average or above-average intelligence who benefit from special-education programs usually find that their learning and support services come...

A Time to Serve: A Case for National Service

TIME magazine Surveys show that while public confidence in the U.S. political system and government are near all-time lows, volunteerism and civic...

Girl Power

Fast Company Seventeen-year-old Ashley Qualls has built the 349th most popular website in the world (out of more than 20 million) without...

Drug Tests Part of the Curriculum at Recovery High

National Public Radio A few dozen public high schools nationwide are trying to educate teens who have hard core drug addictions –...

Children Who Survive Urban Warfare Suffer from PTSD, Too

San Francisco Chronicle Eleven-year-old Terra Turner’s 18-year-old brother was shot and killed on a San Francisco street last summer. As the months...