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2.4KAfter-school Experts Encourage Program Directors to Help Teens Turn Passion Into Action
Students around the world walked out of school Friday to raise awareness for climate change. This type of collective youth action is...
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3.5KExperiential Learning: How to Teach the 3 Skills Students Will Need for Their Dream Careers — on a Budget
Instead of teaching students the content we think they should know, what if students chose the content based on their passions and...
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4.1KCops and No Counselors: How the Lack of School Mental Health Staff Is Harming Students
The ACLU takes a look at newly released Dept. of Education data showing the numbers of social workers, nurses, and psychologists in...
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1.4KBoost Education for Youth in Solitary With More Books, Workbooks, Graphic Novels, Audiobooks
Advocates often urge the dismantling of the school-to-prison pipeline. But for many of our youth, prisons are already their schools. In 1954,...
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3.2KAfter-school Programs Too Important, Needed to Be Endangered by Budget Cuts
With the release of President Donald Trump’s budget, summer program and after-school advocates around the country are again gearing up to rally...
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3.6KTrump Budget Would Kill After-school Funding, Leaving Providers Fearful
For the past two years it’s been a rite of spring for Trump to propose killing the program, for advocates to defend...
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4.0KAspen Report Marks Pivotal Moment For Child Welfare: Youth Development Leader
Karen Pittman is the co-founder, president and CEO of the Forum for Youth Investment, a nonprofit whose goal is to change the...
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2.0KOST: Learn Differences Between Tools to Measure Your Program Quality
What is a high-quality after-school program? What do you expect to see in high-quality programs? As an experienced practitioner, you have likely...
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2.6KJohn Palfrey Named MacArthur Foundation President
John Palfrey has been named president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He succeeds Julia Stasch, who has led the...
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3.4KThese Connections Are Currency; Some Young People Need Our Help to Form Them
The other day I attended a diversity training at work. The facilitator talked about who and how we hire. She said something...
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24.5KYouth Aging Out of Foster Care Need a Runway, Not a Cliff
Toni should be celebrating. She’s part of a rarified group — the 10 percent of students at four-year public colleges who graduate...
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2.0KMany Women, Girls Feel Impact of Justice System Via Their Network, Report From Bronx Organization Shows
G.I.R.L.S. N Da Hood is exploring gender and incarceration in the Bronx. We focused on understanding womyn’s experiences with arrest, court, lockup,...
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2.4KGolf Organization Reaches Out to Youth, Partly to Stem Sport’s Decline
Young people who want to play golf can benefit from a nonprofit that will subsidize their play. It’s Youth on Course, a...
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3.6KCollaboration Between School Districts, Extended-Learning Agencies Creates Holistic Approach to Education
Many of you are well-versed in the fields of education, parks and recreation, and other sectors that serve children. I hope to...
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1.9K$23 Billion – The Disparity in Funding Between White and Nonwhite School Districts
EdBuild breaks down the troubling numbers behind the disparity in funding between predominantly white and predominantly nonwhite school districts around the nation.
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3.4KCommunity Activism a Family Tradition for Head of Violence Interruption Program
She remembers the frantic knocks at the door and the family friend who waited almost hysterical on the other side.
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5.8KJackson, Miss., Turns to Innovative Program to Lower Its Gun Deaths
Mississippi’s capital city is becoming a petri dish for an experiment designed to stop an epidemic of gun violence that claimed 84...
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3.0KCasey Trupin is New Director of Youth Homelessness at Raikes Foundation
Casey Trupin is the new director for youth homelessness at the Seattle-based Raikes Foundation. His appointment comes as his successor, Katie Hong,...
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2.2KRecommended Gun Laws for Illinois Could Have Prevented Shooting: Center
Not long after a shooter killed five people at an Aurora, Ill., warehouse, Johns Hopkins released a report listing ways Illinois could...
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10.7KThe Problem of Youth Homelessness Is Not the Fault of the Youth, Experts Say
The fight against youth homelessness drags on and on. It is not that the fighters are no match for a seemingly intractable...
