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4.1KHow After-school Programs Can Impact Kids’ Screen Time
Two recent surveys have shown that children and teens are spending an increasing amount of time using electronics and media.
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2.8KGenealogy Camp Draws Kids Into STEM Experiential Learning, Thanks to Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Genealogy typically has been an adult pursuit, but Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., is banking on its appeal to middle-schoolers...
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3.2KUnlocking the Code
OST technology programs help girls explore academic, career possibilities
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3.2KHHS Should Do More to Reduce Group Care in States for Foster Kids, GAO Says
The federal Health and Human Services Department should do more to reduce states’ reliance on group homes or institutions for youth in...
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Education Bill Would Preserve Dedicated 21st Century Community Funding
Legislation to reauthorize a major education law would preserve dedicated funding for the 21st Century Community Learning Center initiative, a top priority...
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4.0KMindfulness: Helping Youth Learn to Feel Emotions and Choose Their Behavior
There’s hardly a youth worker or parent who isn’t concerned about the growing number of early and sometimes severe diagnoses of anxiety,...
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1.7KActing Up While Growing Up
For Tada’s Youth Ensemble, Theater Serves as a Bridge to Adulthood
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Education at a Glance – 2015
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provides the authoritative source for data and information about the current state of education...
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Reducing Teen Substance Misuse: What Really Works
This new report from Trust for America's Health uses comprehensive national data to rank all 50 states on how how effective they...
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1.4KVideo: Aging Out, Stepping Up
Senior counselor James Milan, Claremont Neighborhood Center, Bronx, N.Y.
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1.6KAging Out, Stepping Up
James Milan entered foster care at age 4. “My childhood wasn’t the greatest,” he says wryly. “I was trying to figure out...
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1.5KConnecting With Parents a Key Part of Refugee After-school Program
New American Pathways resettles about 500 refugees per year, most in DeKalb County, Georgia. Kids in the after-school program focus on as...
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1.8KIn Class, Out of Court: How One School District Triumphed Over Truancy
Sending kids who habitually miss school to court under the state’s 20-year truancy law hasn’t helped them stay in school. But a...
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2.0KUnaccompanied No More: Family Mediation and Preservation First
How can we expect young people who are worried about where they will sleep that night, where their next meal will come...
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2.1KSexual Exploitation Victims Urged to Come Forward, New Anti-trafficking Envoy Says
Susan Coppedge was recently confirmed as the new director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons in the U.S....
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Black Millennials in America
The Black Youth Project recently created and published this comprehensive report meant to give a data-driven and nuanced perspective of the economic,...
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6.1KAddiction Among Teens Can Be Prevented
Just 5 percent of youth with a substance use disorder get treatment
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2.2K‘Maker Movement’ Brings New Energy to Out-of-School Science and Art
The maker movement and out-of-school time programs are natural allies: They both focus on hands-on, experiential learning. Making and tinkering can support...
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High Quality Child Care is Out of Reach for Working Families
The Economic Policy Institute gauges the affordability of child care across the country using several benchmarks and shows that child care has...
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Newsmakers | November-December 2015
Rajiv Vinnakota - Marsha Bonner - Austan Goolsbee - Dr. Scott D. Berns M.D., M.P.H. - Michael Rubinger
