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Adult play at work: young man in light beard, mustache, with green rubber band and green bracelet on right wrist and wearing gray T-shirt and jeans plays foosball with older man with heavier gray beard, mustache, wearing light blue shirt, dark pants

How to Create a Culture of Play and Why You Should

Google recently explored its own practices to identify key indicators for employee engagement and effectiveness. Google’s Project Aristotle found that successful teams...

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STEM Education, Career and Technical Training Project Grants

Subject: STEM Education, Career Training, Technical Training | Deadline: May 15, 2018; Aug. 15, 2018 | Amount: $2,000 - $5,000+

Violence: youth in olive green hooded sweatshirt looks lost, isolated, sad.

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Youth Violence Shows How Necessary After-school Is, NAA Leaders Say

When NAA President and CEO Gina Warner stepped to the podium at lunchtime Tuesday at the National Afterschool Association Convention, she had...

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In Rural North Georgia and Southern California, Youth Leaders Talk Gun Control

With March for Our Lives rallies happening around the U.S. Saturday, March 24, Youth Today asked young leaders who participated in their...

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos seated speaking at House Appropriations Committee wearing deep red suit & red/white/blue scarf.

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Despite DeVos Claim, Data Show Effectiveness of After-school Programs

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday repeated the Trump administration's claim that no data shows after-school programs to be effective.

NAA Convention: Jessica Sandoval & Amy Guerrero smiling headshots.

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After-school Professionals Find New Ideas, Resources, Messages at NAA Convention

ATLANTA — About 1,800 after-school professionals attended workshops on social and emotional learning, effective approaches to STEM, creating high-quality programs and many...

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Colleges, Universities Should Be Pressured to Help Students in Foster Care

Growing up in Flint, Michigan and being a part of the foster care system from age 13 until I aged out at...

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Mentoring Foster Youth in Rural America Is Harder But Badly Needed

Though mentoring has existed in my community of Dickinson, North Dakota for the past 23 years, youth in foster care, although most...

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Poor Kids End Up in Foster Care Because Parents Don’t Get Margin of Error Rich Do

Is this child neglect? A couple takes their two children, ages 14 and 11, with them on an old “waterlogged” boat, five...

Foster care: Young boy sadly peering through chain link fence with hangs entwined in fence.

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Trump’s Immigration Policy Pushing Children Into Foster Care

The struggle to reunite a Congolese woman swept up in an immigration crackdown with her little girl — and to reunite countless...

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How Closing My Competency-based School Led to Learning What Works

I closed the doors to Missouri’s first competency-based high school after just three years. Our school, based in St. Louis and on...

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Students Walk Out to Protest Gun Violence in NY, Atlanta and LA

Thousands of students, administrators and teachers across the country walked out today to mark the one-month anniversary of the mass shooting at...

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The Road to School: How Far Students Travel to School in the Choice-Rich Cities of Denver, Detroit, NO, NYC, and Washington, DC

Author(s): The Urban Institute – Student Transportation Working Group Published: Mar. 14, 2018 Report Intro/Brief: “How to get to school is an...

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Francis Guzman Receives the Juvenile Law Center’s 2018 Leadership Prize

Francis V. Guzman has been announced as a recipient of the Juvenile Law Center’s 2018 Leadership Prize. Guzman has helped to catapult...

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We Child Welfare Professionals Must Expand Our Objectives to Education

What is our job as child welfare professionals? What should our priorities be? How should we measure success? The answers to these...

Protest Signs: Teen student protesters paint signs "NEVER AGAIN" preparing to march .

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Atlanta High School Among Many Preparing for Walkout Linked to Parkland Shooting

Thousands of students, administrators and teachers across Georgia and the country are expected to walk out Wednesday for the one-month anniversary of...