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1.4KThat Time I Was on the Other Side of Restorative Justice
A referral came in from a music teacher in our high school. The music department was preparing for the Winter Showcase and...
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1.4KStranded: How States Maroon Districts in Financial Distress
This new report from EdBuild shows how financially distressed school districts are left with no options for funding and are often at...
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4.4KParents Need to Go Into Foster Care, Not the Children
It’s no secret the foster care system is completely broken. Yet, there is a way to fix it.
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2.9KEmployer Sponsorship May Be Good Way to Increase Mentors, Report Says
A quarter of American adults are actively engaged in mentoring young people, and far more would be interested if they had more...
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2.5KMarietta Rodriguez is Named the Next President and CEO of NeighborWorks America
NeighborWorks America recently named Marietta Rodriguez as its next president and CEO. The appointment is a promotion from within, as Rodriguez has...
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2.9KMammoth Site in South Dakota Has All the Ingredients to Engage Kids in STEM
A resource in South Dakota straight out of the Ice Age has special potential for capturing kids’ imagination and fostering interest in...
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2.9KToday’s Kids Need Currency That Buys Success in Tomorrow’s World
The world is changing in dramatic ways. Technology, along with political, socioeconomic and environmental forces are reshaping how we live and work....
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1.9KSeminal After-school Report Marked a Pivot Point in Working with Youth, Creators Say
When Jane Quinn walked into the gleaming conference room at the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1990, its wide bank of...
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2.2KToday’s Immigration Policies Are Going to Affect Child-Serving Systems Tomorrow
On April 11, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum to all federal prosecutors along the southwest border of the United...
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1.4KEvery Child to Flourish: Understanding Global Perspectives on Improving Education
Author(s): HundrED Jessica Spencer-Keyse Frederika Warren Jamie Galloway Published: June 2018 Report Intro/Brief: “For many children around the world today, the education...
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2.5KOut-of-school Time SEL Prepares Young People for Workforce
The other day, I was speaking with a friend who works in human resources. She was in the process of filling an...
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4.0KDeAnna Hoskins is JustLeadershipUSA’s New President
DeAnna Hoskins is the new president of JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA). Hoskins has been a leader in the justice system for years at the...
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3.8KCamp Leaders Have Chance to Help Young With Eating Disorders
I had the opportunity to work with a young girl named Aria last summer. While she was a little younger than the...
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5.9KI’m Not an Immigrant But I Still Fear Deportation
Like most children, I never realized the tremendous impact my father’s values and culture would have on me. My mother was mainly...
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1.7KExtreme Stress in Childhood Is Toxic to Your DNA
The Conversation The real danger of separating children from parents is not the psychological stress — it’s the biological time bomb. The...
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2.4KYouth Risk Behavior Surveillance 2017
This report from the CDC summarizes results from the 2017 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), including 121 health-related behaviors...
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2.5KNational Summer Learning Day Features Geeking Out Kids of Color, Foreign Language Programs
The summer learning movement came into being after research in the 1990s showed that the academic gap between affluent and low-income students...
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3.2KMonique Rizer is the New Executive Director of Urban Alliance’s Washington D.C. Region
Urban Alliance recently announced the selection of Monique Rizer as executive director of its Washington, D.C. region.
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2.1KJailing Immigrant Families Is Just Incarceration By Another Name
“See, too, that girl of thirteen, weeping, yes! weeping, as she thinks of the mother from whom she has been torn!” —Frederick...
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3.5KVideo Project Brings Together Urban and Rural Teens, Teaches New Skills
When James Hatfield, 17, left Campbell County, Tenn., to travel to the Bronx, New York, six months ago, he was nervous...
