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3.0KSissy’s Story
"I'm good enough just the way I am," says Sissy Weldon, as she contemplates on her struggles with addiction and lessons in...
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3.2KConvicted on Drug Charges, Georgia Youth Faces Life After Rehab
NEWNAN, Ga. — It was the fake $100 bill that finally landed Corey Roberts in prison. He’d already had one close call,...
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11.9KAfter 5 Decades, Ruby Bridges Gets Applause Instead of Death Threats in School
The hateful words drew gasps from the audience, pulling them back to 1960, hitting them head-on as the burly white U.S. Marshals...
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1.3KPotential Opportunities for Out-of-school Time in New Education Law
As the Every Student Succeeds Act goes into effect, out-of-school time providers could have a new opportunity.
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1.3KAll About Girls Summit Seeks to Create ‘Girls Movement’
“How do we change the landscape for the sexual-abuse-to-prison pipeline, stop criminalizing girls’ behavior?” asks Mary Marx, president and CEO of Florida-based...
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1.2KSenate Committee Approves Changes to After-school, Summer Meals
Summer and after-school programs could more easily feed children under legislation approved by the Senate Agriculture Committee. It would streamline the administrative...
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1.4KBook review: Relational Treatment of Trauma: Stories of Loss and Hope
“Life cannot be lived without loss,” writes Toni Heineman in the opening of “Relational Trauma: Stories of Loss and Hope,” but “perhaps...
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1.6KLawsuit Alleges Expelled Students Get Substandard Education
Motions begin this week in a lawsuit alleging that expelled students receive an inferior education and violate the state’s constitutional guarantee of...
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State of the K-12 Market 2015
Market Data Retrieval's newest edition of its "State of the K-12 Market" report quantifies the continued growth of the K-12 education industry...
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Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admissions
The Harvard Graduate School of Education revently produced and released this report calling for widespread reform in the college admissions process of...
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4.0KNew Jersey Teens Help Create New Law for Youth to Access Mental Health Without Parents’ Consent
“In a typical legislative hearing you have aids whispering in the legislators’ ears, you have rustling of papers, you have side conversations,...
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1.7KRestorative Justice Can Help Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline, NY Panel Says
Raising the age to be charged as an adult and restorative justice are crucial in slowing the school-to-prison pipeline, New York panelists...
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1.4KYouth Leaders and Kids Keep Dream Alive on MLK Day
Kids from the Gresham Park Recreation Center in DeKalb County, Georgia., have been marching in Atlanta’s Martin Luther King Day parade for...
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1.2KFriends
Six stories of losing friends to overdose are woven into one tale of drugs and loss.
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1.6KNew Strategies for Treating Addiction among Teens
An unlikely group gathered last spring in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the opening of a new addiction-treatment center just for teens. Probation...
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1.7KChild Care Costs Have Become Huge Burden to Families
Families whose income is double the poverty level — $39,580 for a family of three — would still find such costs prohibitive....
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1.7KLuke: Abuse in Foster Care as Trans Youth
"Every time I went to a new group home, it was like: 'you're a girl; you have to have girl things,'" said...
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2.9KCollege Bound
Policy and programs can remove obstacles to college for youth experiencing homelessness and foster care
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3.7KBreaking the Cycle, One Young Person at a Time
Jamel Bonilla was 17 when he took part in an armed robbery. He was convicted of a felony and served 18 months...
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2.5KAdvocates Hope for Action on National Background Check Bill
WASHINGTON — Youth advocates hope this year will bring action on legislation that would give youth-serving organizations greater access to criminal background...
