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Study Says U.S. Lags Behind Developed Countries on Youth Investments

The United States should establish a cabinet-level youth department to why the country is falling behind most other developed countries on youth...

Dropouts Face a Future with More Jobs But Less Options, Study Finds

The number of jobs available to dropouts and high school graduates will go up this decade, but there also will be far...

Weekly Notes: Day 960; attempts to expand on Graham v Florida; and more

***Day 960 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

Obama Plan Includes Summer Jobs for Youth, Unemployment Protection for Families

Note: This article was updated and corrected Sept. 9. President Barack Obama laid out a job creation plan tonight that includes funding...

Newsmakers September 2011

Nonprofits The Girl Scouts of the USA selected one of its own to succeed Kathy Cloninger as its chief executive officer. Anna...

Selling Eighth-Graders on College

This summer, at the age of 36, I decided it was time to go back to college. I slept in the dorms,...

Bringing Juveniles Back to School

As the old adage goes, and bears repeating once again: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The best...

Weekly Notes: Agenda for Juvenile Woodstock; NYC’s plan for young minority men; Walsh Act update; and more

***Day 925 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

The College Payoff: Education, Occupation, Lifetime Earnings

The steady rise of college costs and the mounds of debt students are shouldering to pay those costs has given rise to...

Awards July 2011

2011 Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award For: Commitment to increasing California’s health care workforce and its diversity. By: The California Wellness...

Newsmakers July 2011

Nonprofits Roxanne Spillett, who has led the Atlanta-based Boys & Girls Clubs of America since 1996, announced she will step down as...

YouthBuild Again Wins Funds to Work with Dropout Juvenile Offenders

Eight months after being stripped of a $10 million Department of Labor (DOL) grant it received to help dropouts and juvenile offenders...

The Economic Imperative for More Adults to Complete Community College in D.C.

Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) Although the number of high school...

Three-Year Results of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Evaluation

MDRC This report analyzes the results of the National Guard’s Youth ChalleNGe program, which targets high school dropouts between ages 16 and...

The Economic Value of College Majors

Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce The report released by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, not...

AED Finds Single Buyer, U.S. Programs Expected to Continue

The Academy for Educational Development is close to being acquired by major North Carolina nonprofit Family Health International (FHI), and, if the...

Labor Dept. Elected to Strip $10 Million Grants from YouthBuild, Corps Network

The Department of Labor used its own discretion to vacate two $10 million grants to national youth organizations after a challenge to...

Labor Department Stripped $10 Million from YouthBuild USA, Corps Network

A pair of $10 million grants to two national youth-serving organizations designed to help dropouts and young adult offenders gain marketable skills...